The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
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Many people have a wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Joy is not in thing; it is in us.
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Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
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Human happiness has no prefect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtus none but knowledge.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
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The happinest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
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Happiness is…..
…the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
…the grace of being permitted to unfold..all the spiritual powers planted within us.
…the conviction that we are loved..in spite of ourselves.
…tranquility of mind.
…enjoying the realities as well as the frivolities of life.
…made up of minute fractions..countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.