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Quotes about happiness
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. (Bates Alan)
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. (Bates Alan)
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. (Bates Alan)
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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. (Bates Alan)
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. (Bates Alan)
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. (Bates Alan)
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness. (Bates Alan)
Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation. (Bates Alan)
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. (Bates Alan)
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. (Bates Alan)
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness. (Bates Alan)
To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness. (Bates Alan)
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. (Bates Alan)
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. (Bates Alan)
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. (Bates Alan)
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. (Bates Alan)
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. (Bates Alan)
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. (Bates Alan)
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. (Bates Alan)
The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness. (Bates Alan)
Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living. (Bates Alan)
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. (Bates Alan)
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. (Bates Alan)
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