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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. ~ Johann von Goethe Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. ~ Sidney Madwed The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ~ Andr Maurois One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. ~ Diogenes Laertius, Zeno Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy. ~ Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. ~ Samuel Johnson Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to. ~ Cyrus Corteise Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Joseph Addison Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do. ~ James M. Barrie
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