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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown
US author and social activist

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

Marquis de Sade

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
English poet (1809 - 1892)

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper
English poet & translator (1731 - 1800)

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825
French gourmet & lawyer (1755 - 1826)

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Eykis

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope
English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown
US author and social activist

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.

Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier
US essayist (1855 - 1950)

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquirer

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)

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