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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Faith, Respect

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Happiness, Happy, Believe

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• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous".

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

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

  Cecelia Ahern

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Jesus, Perfect, Return

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• Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Perfect, Common

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.205

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• There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

  Horace

  Perfect

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• Though we cannot understand "the meaning of all things," we do "know that God loveth his children" because He has said, "Behold, this is my work and my glory-to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." Heavenly Father is able to accomplish these two great goals-the immortality and eternal life of man-because He is a God of creation and compassion. Creating and being compassionate are two objectives that contribute to our Heavenly Father's perfect happiness. Creating and being compassionate are two activities that we as His spirit children can and should emulate.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Father, Compassion

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• Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

  Joy Fielding

  Love Is, Knowing, Perfect

  Simon and schuster Interview, www.goodreads.com. October, 2009.

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• To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

  Jane Austen

  Perfect, Age, Wells

  "Fictional character: The Voice of Jane Austen". "Northanger Abbey", www.imdb.com. March 25, 2007.

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• In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Couple, Men

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• My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

  David Mamet

  Ideas, Perfect, Healthy

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

  Gerald of Wales

  Wise, Men, Errors

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• Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Spring, Perfect, Expectations

  Hugh Kingsmill (1944). “The Poisoned Crown”

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• Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, Perfect, Joy

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• Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Memories, Two, Perfect

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.

  Keiko Nobumoto

  Lying, Flower, Sadness

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• You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Self, Order

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 23, 2013

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

  Celia Thaxter

  Time, Morning, Garden

  "An Island Garden".

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• Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

  Aristotle

  Lying, Philosophical, Perfect

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

  William James

  Happiness, Sadness, Reality

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