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Happiness

«The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.»
«The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up»
«The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.»
«The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Art, Happiness | Keywords: extracting
«The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.»
«The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action»
«The best things in life are free.»
«The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | About: Happiness | Keywords: abolition, requisite, requisites
«The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Happiness | Keywords: occupy, swallow
«The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.»