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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill
Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy
"The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill
Happiness, Art, Mean
John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.3190, e-artnow

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill
Happiness, Happy, Heart
Autobiography ch. 5 (1873)

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