Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it. ― Sebastian Faulks

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The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. – Dodinsky

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Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ― Roy T. Bennett,

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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. ― Lombardi

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ― George Santayana

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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. ― Emma Donoghue

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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. ― mary baker eddy

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The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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We have to understand in a deep way that having what we truly want in life contributes to the general state of human happiness and supports others in creating more happiness for themselves.

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