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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happi

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends. – Chinese Proverb

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in ones earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. – Ashley Montagu

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True religion… is giving and finding ones happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. – William J. H. Boetcker

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