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I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet / 



I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

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Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.
Émile Zola - Germinal / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus / 





Perhaps peace is more than happiness.
Henri Bosco / 





Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Jeremy Bentham / 





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu / 





Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Bertrand Russell / 





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
André Comte-Sponville / 





The effort we make to be happy is never lost.
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur / 





A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.
Albert Einstein / 





Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl / 





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 





Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus / 





Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza / 





My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.
André Gide - Fruits of the Earth / 





Everyone has the right to happiness, but nobody has the right to destroy the happiness of others.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume / 





If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle / 





My happiness should justify existence itself!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.
Jules Renard / 





When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde - The soul of man under socialism / 





There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 





Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
Aristotle / 





Think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
Anne Frank / 





To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell / 





We should try to be happy, just to set an example.
Jacques Prévert / 





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