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You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
What I think about is my happiness, together with my family. I want us to be happy.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.
I think if you're a good person and spread happiness, good things will come to you!
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.