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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ↗

— Storm Jameson

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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

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