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One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in...

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If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our liv...

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good ac...

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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may thin...

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Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end...

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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the ...

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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happine...

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Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deservin...

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoeve...

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Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLe...

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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy....

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He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for...

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Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life...

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Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, eit...

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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with ...

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(the whole world is at thethroat of the world,everybody feels angry,short-changed, cheated,everybody...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel bet...

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she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come ...

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He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and...

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours...

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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

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Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

My life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...

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That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Kra...

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It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

So she goes to see the Old Man of the Mountains–looks just like you, Bear. Same face, same hair. A b...

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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese...

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I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...

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St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a...

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You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...

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Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...

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I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deem...

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Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

Sweetheart, happily ever after does exist, it’s just not what you think,” he said. “Happily ever aft...

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Chris ColferWorlds Collide

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what...

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What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control o...

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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to ...

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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for...

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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

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

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea o...

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There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions ...

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We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time e...

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but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for de...

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They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I...

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The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from p...

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The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bi...

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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and ba...

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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, t...

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She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knac...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what y...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid alw...

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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If...

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He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on h...

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy...

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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live...

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If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what yo...

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Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what yo...

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Your smile is a messenger of your good will.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work youbelieve in with all your heart, live ...

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By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by control...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

Wake up! If you knew for certain that you had a terminal illness - if you had precious little time l...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was ...

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The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness...

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Dan SavageSkipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

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Daniel KahnemanWell-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wa...

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