#pine

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To buy happiness is to sell soul. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. ↗

— John Howe

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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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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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