#happiness

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. ↗

— Horace

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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To buy happiness is to sell soul. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ↗

— Langston Hughes

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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