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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

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My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success. ↗

— Michael Landon

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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

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

— John Mason Good

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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. ↗

— Bob Hope

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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

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The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

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