The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition,Creation.

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. —Jaques Prevert

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. ― Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke

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

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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. ― mary baker eddy

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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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