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“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs
“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
Seneca
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination”
Mark Twain
“Happiness equals reality minus expectations”
Tom Magliozzi
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
C.S. Lewis
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein
“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