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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make i

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that youve scowled upon. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. – Andrew Weil

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. – Austin OMalley

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. – Diana Ross

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