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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

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Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. ↗

— Robert Trout

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It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ↗

— John Ruskin

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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