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Quotes about happiness
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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy. (Bates Alan)
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved. (Bates Alan)
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. (Bates Alan)
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Be happy or die. (Bates Alan)
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. (Bates Alan)
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route (Bates Alan)
We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves. (Bates Alan)
Happiness seems made to be shared. (Bates Alan)
Happiness lies first of all in health. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. (Bates Alan)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. (Bates Alan)
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. (Bates Alan)
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. (Bates Alan)
Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. (Bates Alan)
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. (Bates Alan)
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. (Bates Alan)
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. (Bates Alan)
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. (Bates Alan)
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. (Bates Alan)
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door (Bates Alan)
To fill the hour -- that is happiness. (Bates Alan)
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