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• Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

  Rajneesh

  Compassion, People, Unhappy

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• The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

  Marion G. Romney

  Keys, Inner Peace, Spirit

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• I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Thinking, Media

  "New Day" with John King, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2015.

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• Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Wise, Laughter

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2328, Delphi Classics

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happy, Spiritual

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Joy, Sorrow

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.

  Sri Chinmoy

  World, Way, Do It Yourself

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• It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Laughter, Joy, Sorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.295, Wordsworth Editions

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• May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.203, New World Library

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• Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Doe, Vulnerable

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• Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Joy, Wheels

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Joy, Range

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

  William Feather

  Struggle, Inner Peace, Might

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• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Depression, Being Happy

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Time, Mean, Joy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.165, Penguin

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• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Peace, Men

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

  Anthony de Mello

  Sorry, Fear, Lying

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Selfish, Love Yourself, Sacrifice

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• Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

  Tom Stoppard

  Weight, Equilibrium

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness". Book by David Bender, p. 213, 2000.

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• The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Identity, Nerves

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Fun, Joy, Victory

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter (The Gresham Chronicles Book #2)”, p.509, Baker Books

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• All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

  Doris Lessing

  Moving, Knowing, Skins

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

  Robert Breault

  Giving Up, Giving, Sometimes

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