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Happiness.

The pursuit of joy, contentment, and what truly matters.

“People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.”

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

Charles Dickens

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”

“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

Bertrand Russell

“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”

“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

“You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.”

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”

Albert Einstein

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

Guillaume Apollinaire

“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”

“Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.”

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”

“Love what you do and do what you love; otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.”

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

“The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.”

“For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”

“Look back with joy. Look forward with hope. Be present with peace.”

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

Saint Augustine

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.”

Publilius Syrus

“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

Albert Einstein