Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys—of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain. ― Peter Heller, Celine

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit. — Hosea Ballou

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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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Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion. ― Allan Lokos

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The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. — Joseph Addison

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Let them be your friend because their love is liberating. Because they love your happiness as much as their own. Because their love is strong, but so light to hold. Love liberates. ― Darnell Lamont Walker

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. _ Marcus Aurelius

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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. – Victor Hugo

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