My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. ― Ayn Rand

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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. ― Cyrus the Great

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Happiness is not by chance but by choice. — Jim Rohn

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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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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Happiness is a direction, not a place. — Sydney J. Harris

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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

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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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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ― Douglas Jerrold

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