#happiness

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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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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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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