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“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

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

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

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

“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live”

“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.”

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”