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It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and th

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating ones uses. – Sarah Orne Jewett

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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. – John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863

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We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. – John Lubbock

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