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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

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I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. ↗

— Alain Delon

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ↗

— Bo Derek

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ↗

— John Dewey

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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ↗

— William Blake

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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