God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing. ― C.S. Lewis

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

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Happiness only real when shared. ― Christopher McCandless

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. _ John Lennon

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Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away. Then only LOVE remains... ― Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand

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So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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we're all golden sunflowers inside. _ Allen Ginsberg

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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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