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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. – John Dewey

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A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline. – John Dewey

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. – John Dewey

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost

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There is no happiness outside of ourselves. – Bryant McGill

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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