Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. – James M. Barrie

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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect._ Alain De Botton

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. _ Friedrich Koenig

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — Steven Kloves

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The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there. ― Jude Morgan

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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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I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since. - John Lanchester

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