Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ― Douglas Jerrold

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. - Dalai Lama

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Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama

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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ― Chuck Palahniuk

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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness—otherwise, how would you know when you’re happy? — Leslie Caron,

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the point of losing something precious - be it happiness of material wealth - can be forgotten over time. but our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. because without the thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.

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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ― Mahatma Gandhi

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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