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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. – David Brainerd

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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. – David Brainerd

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Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. – David Brainerd

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. – Denis Diderot

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo

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The older I get, the more I see that there really arent huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground. – Paula Cole

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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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