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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
 - Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940) |
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If you are suffering from a lack of self-worth, perhaps you are not doing anything worthwhile.
- Anonymous |
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To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving. No self-centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.
- Joseph Fort Newton (1880-1950) |
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
- Montesquieu (1688-1755) |
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Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.
- John Powell |
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
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Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things.
- Maltbie D. Babcock |
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Who seeks more than he has hinders himself from enjoying what he has.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-58) |
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Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you have with what you deserve and you'll be happy.
- Evan Esar |
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