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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. ↗

— John Buchan

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If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Happiness isn’t the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single flower, the majesty of the world in which we are central. Look over your shoulder at how far you’ve come and all the good things you’ve experienced and that is when you will see the smiling face of happiness. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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Happiness is always a coincidence. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

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Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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