#happiness

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

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When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey . . . ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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To describe happiness is to diminish it. ↗

— Stendhal

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change. ↗

— Rik Leaf

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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. ↗

— Harold Kushner

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