Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness. ― Isra

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

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I often surprise myself by saying, ‘Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.’ If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that too. — Harrison Ford

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. _ Marcus Aurelius

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Happiness was born a twin.

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We have to understand in a deep way that having what we truly want in life contributes to the general state of human happiness and supports others in creating more happiness for themselves.

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — Steve Kloves, screenwriter

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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ― E.L. Konigsburg

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when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

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