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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. ↗

— Buddha

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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ↗

— George Burns

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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. ↗

— George Burns

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I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to. ↗

— Brenda Fassie

#because #happiness #i #make #me

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ↗

— William Feather

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What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring? ↗

— Richard Owen Cambridge

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