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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

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When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. ↗

— Debra Messing

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The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. ↗

— Denzel Washington

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To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever—he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness. ↗

— David Guterson

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