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If you want to be happy, be.
~ Leo Tolstoy


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)