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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. ↗

— Prem Rawat

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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

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Blame is the creed of the disempowered. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply undoing a previous change. They concluded that the increases in worker productivity were not due to better lighting or better pay or longer breaks per se. They were just temporary improvements caused by a change in routine. ↗

— Hal Herzog

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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ↗

— Olympia Brown

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