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Quote by Arnold Bennett
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full hon

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett

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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Arnold Bennett

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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. – John Ruskin

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I cant believe its been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. Its unbelievable just how far everything has come. Im happier now than Ive ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to Glee. – Lea Michele

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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. – Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

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I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that arent. Ive opted for the road of happiness and long life. – Ethan Suplee

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The most effective way to do it, is to do it. – Amelia Earhart

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