#happiness

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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

— Kin Hubbard

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. ↗

— Steve Kerr

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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. ↗

— William James

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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ↗

— Storm Jameson

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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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