Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. ― Samuel Gordon

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Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. ― Santosh Kalwar

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Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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

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Happiness makes up and height for what it lacks in length ― Robert Frost

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ―Helen Keller

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We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it is has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently. ("Happy days are back again") ― Erik Pevernagie

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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