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

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. ― Charles Dickens

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy. ― Anne Frank

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Happiness depends upon ourselves. —Aristotle

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

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We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it is has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently. ("Happy days are back again") ― Erik Pevernagie

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. ― Samuel Gordon

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