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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint
Happiness, Man, Wishes
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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."

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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer
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"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist
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"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

Thomas Jefferson, American President
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
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"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet
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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher
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"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."

Maya Angelou, American Poet
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"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer
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"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet
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"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer
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