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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Charles Dickens
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If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. Charles Caleb Colton
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
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Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Tullian Tchividjian
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I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. Charles Spurgeon
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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity Joseph Addison
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Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease Thomas Haliburton
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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
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Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends. Louisa May Alcott
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We oppose the habitual use of sanctions, or threats of sanctions, to solve problems. This only complicates problems.
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We don't feel like we have any habitual offenders at the airport. Otherwise they wouldn't be operating at the airport.