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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ↗

— John Harrigan

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

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It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ↗

— Henry Ford

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I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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