There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. - Jose Marti

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Happiness only real when shared. ― Christopher McCandless

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness. _ Joel Osteen

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ― Gustave Flaubert

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Solitude is the choice to be alone for self-reflection and happiness. ― Shree Shambav

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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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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. - Immanuel Kant

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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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