Quote by John Burroughs
The secret of happiness is something to do. - John Burroughs

The secret of happiness is something to do. – John Burroughs

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. – Pierre de Coubertin

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This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. Made-in-China goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We cant manufacture the happiness of our people. – Ai Weiwei

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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. – Mary MacLane

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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. – Ethel Percy Andrus

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