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- We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
- William Lyon Phelps
- He is rich who owes nothing.
- Hungarian
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
- Author Unknown
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
- Thomas Troward
- How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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