#true happiness

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ↗

— John Ruskin

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. ↗

— Olivia Goldsmith

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. ↗

— Buddha

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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— John Mason Brown

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I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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