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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them - Albert Camus
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them - Albert Camus
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out, you must stay out. And to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand - Henry James
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some other object - John Stuart Mill http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2011/03/jules-eva…
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself - Henry David Thoreau
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty to be happy - Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is full of happy people, but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get into the papers - from A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton-Porter http://www.gratefulness.org/gratefulnews/index.htm
The widespread loss of a sense of transcendence lies at the root of our current anxiety about happiness,http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4759…
The happiest people were not those who pursued happiness, the wealthiest men were not the most materialistic: the great painting was not the most faithful representation - John Kay, http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/07/legitimising_rhetoricn…
The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything - Anon