it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. ― Daisaku Ikeda

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

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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

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No medicine cures what happiness cannot. ― Gabriel García Márquez

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From the tiniest speck of neuron to an entire sapient person, we always look for connection. ― Abhijit Naskar

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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. ― Abraham Lincoln

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If you assign your happiness to external circumstances, you will never find the one thing we all deserve...joy in life. ― Andrew Pacholyk

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. —Rita Mae Brown

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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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