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“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

“To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“The best things in life aren't things.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”