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Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
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I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
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If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.
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Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
