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“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigler
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“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
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
Storm Jameson
“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient”
Aristotle
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
Agnes Repplier
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness”
Euripides
“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
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus