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- Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
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- If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
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- Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
- Charles M. Schwab
- We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
- Karl Popper
- 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
- If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
- Montesquieu
- Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson
- It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
- Roger L'Estrange
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