 | "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
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| "The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."
- Al Batt
, in National Enquirer. |
| "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
- Albert Schweitzer
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| "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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| "A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
- Anatole France
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| "The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
, Physiologie du Gout, 1825. |
| "Happiness depends upon ourselves."
- Aristotle
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| "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
- Ayn Rand
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| "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
- Baruch Spinoza
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| "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
- Bertrand Russell
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