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Quotes about happiness
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. (Bates Alan)
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. (Bates Alan)
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. (Bates Alan)
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. (Bates Alan)
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. (Bates Alan)
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. (Bates Alan)
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. (Bates Alan)
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. (Bates Alan)
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. (Bates Alan)
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. (Bates Alan)
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. (Bates Alan)
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. (Bates Alan)
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. (Bates Alan)
Joy comes from using your potential. (Bates Alan)
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. (Bates Alan)
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Bates Alan)
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. (Bates Alan)
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. (Bates Alan)
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life. (Bates Alan)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (Bates Alan)
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. (Bates Alan)
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. (Bates Alan)
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