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Happiness

«He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.»
«Happy trails to you, until we meet again.»
Author: Dale Evans Rogers (Singer) | About: Goodbye, Happiness | Keywords: trails
«He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.»
Author: William R. Alger (Theologian) | About: Happiness | Keywords: happier, happiest
«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.»
«Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.»
«He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home»
«Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Happiness
«How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.»
«He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.»
«He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Happiness | Keywords: happiest