“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
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Dalai Lama
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Jane Austen
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8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Leo Tolstoy
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Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
Alexandre Dumas
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André Gide
5 quotes“To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.”
Charles Schulz
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François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
Bertrand Russell
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Albert Camus
5 quotes“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Schweitzer
5 quotes“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”