Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ― Helen Keller

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness. ― Leon Tolstoy

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The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature. ― John Piper

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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

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My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

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If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. _ Lao Tzu

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Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy. ― Saji Ijiyemi

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. - William Dean Howells

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