“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”

“Happiness is loving your enemies.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”

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