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Happiness Quotes - Page 7

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

"Fictional character: Edward Ferrars". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.311, Sheba Blake Publishing

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

A Fragment on Government preface (1776). Bentham said that he derived this formula from either Joseph Priestley or Cesare Beccaria; Beccaria is the more likely. If Priestley was the source, then Bentham was paraphrasing him because the phrase is not found in Priestley's writings. See Beccaria 1; Hutcheson 1

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

"Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Statement to the press in July 1969. "The Beatles: An Oral History". Book by Alan Lysaght and David Pritchard, p. 285, 1998.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

"Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

"Fictional character: Vincent Crummles". "Nicholas Nickleby", www.imdb.com. 2002.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), AndrĂ© Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press