#happines

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#experience

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. ↗

— Andy Rooney

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ↗

— George Orwell

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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