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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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? ― Joyce Carol Oates

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Happiness depends upon ourselves. —Aristotle

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Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" ) ― Erik Pevernagie

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. _ Don Herold

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The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

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Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it. _ Albert Schweitzer

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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. - Charles R. Swindoll

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

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