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    “All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means – for example, wealth and status – with that life itself.  This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life.  The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.” ~ Epictetus

      “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

        “Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank

          “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” ~ Anne Frank

            “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha

              “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

                “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

                  “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” ~ Chinese Proverb

                    “Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.” ~ Nido Qubein

                      “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ~ Mark Twain

                        “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn

                          “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller

                            “No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.” ~ Helen Keller

                              “No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.” ~ Helen Keller

                                “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller

                                  “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller

                                    “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face” ~ Victor Hugo

                                      “There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.  Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung

                                        “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh