#happiness

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. ↗

— Robert Herrick

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I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. ↗

— Alfred Day Hershey

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The day of individual happiness has passed. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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