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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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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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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Carmen Electra

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True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

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