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Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. -- Aimee Mullins
Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel. -- Harry Browne
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us. -- Maeve Binchy
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek. -- John Buchanan Robinson
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. -- Dennis Prager
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. -- Natascha McElhone
Know your own happiness. -- Jane Austen
We create our own happiness. -- Bonnie Raitt
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are the architects of our own happiness -- Gerald Causse
Everyone is the architect of their own happiness -- Joseph Pilates
The secret is this. You make your own happiness. -- Harold Klemp
You must be the best judge of your own happiness. -- Jane Austen
Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness. -- Reese Witherspoon
She had always been...the motive power of her own happiness. -- Ayn Rand
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life. -- John Lubbock
The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy. -- Deepak Chopra
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness. -- Alexander Hamilton
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. -- Dalai Lama
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness -- Esther Hicks
The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace. -- Allan Lokos
The wise person understands that his own happiness must include the happiness of others. -- Dennis Weaver
The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness -- Simon Bolivar
I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness. -- Sandra Bullock
If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. -- Ellen Glasgow
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. -- Thomas More
It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness. -- Josei Toda
We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind. -- Dalai Lama
Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave. -- G.A. Henty
I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl. -- Ai Yazawa
I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness. -- Ai Weiwei
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. -- Peter Singer
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. -- Claudius Claudianus
A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success. -- Raffaella Barker
As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems. -- Ray Kroc
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. -- John Stuart Mill
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. -- Jane Austen
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. -- Osamu Dazai
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. -- Vincent Van Gogh
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. -- John Tillotson
You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about. -- Melissa de la Cruz
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction -- Dalai Lama
Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed. -- Rodolfo Costa
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. -- Daisaku Ikeda
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death. -- Gautama Buddha
Being a joyful vegan is the best way I know to contribute to the happiness of others, ultimately ensuring our own happiness. -- Sharon Gannon
Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn't have to be limited by anyone else's stupidity unless you allow it to be. -- James Altucher
Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be. -- Dalai Lama
Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. -- Albert Einstein
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. -- Albert Einstein
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. -- Seneca the Younger
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. -- Joseph Butler
It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's. -- M. Leighton
Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown. -- Sarah Silverman
It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies. -- Bertrand Russell
A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes. -- Julia McNair Wright
I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment. -- Martin Sheen
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. -- Meir Kahane
Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being. -- Deepak Chopra
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy -- Shantideva
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. -- Margot Asquith
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others -- Samuel Johnson
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy~? -- Jane Austen
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy. -- Ayn Rand
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. -- Lysander Spooner
There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are. -- Francois Fenelon
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. -- Irving Babbitt
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us. -- Samuel Johnson
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty. -- Woodrow Wilson
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. -- Bertrand Russell
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater. -- Emily Giffin
Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back. -- Emily Giffin
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness. -- Brittany Murphy
For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity. -- Shoghi Effendi
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. -- Ayn Rand
I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life. -- Maeve Binchy
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn. -- Michael J. Fox
Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it. -- Jesse D. Jennings
Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked? -- Sissela Bok
Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy. -- Cherie Lunghi
Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success. -- Harvey Mackay
These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others. -- Shantideva
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope. -- Jane Austen
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity. -- Bertrand Russell
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person. -- Ayn Rand
Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day! -- Steve Maraboli
In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness. -- Paul Brand
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.' -- Cherie Lunghi
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held. -- Chica Umino
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want. -- William P. Young
We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step. -- Jesse Browner
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away. -- Charles Dickens
But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. -- Albert Einstein
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. -- Jill Scott
If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life. -- Byron Katie
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness. -- Shah Rukh Khan
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. -- Prem Rawat
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. -- Marina Abramovic
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -- Dalai Lama XIV
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. -- Lucinda Williams
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. -- Thomas Aquinas
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. -- Douglas William Jerrold
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought. -- Edmund White
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. -- J. B. Priestley
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. -- Denis Waitley
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. -- Tryon Edwards
Happiness is your own responsibility -- Jennifer Garner
Happiness lies in your own hand -- Madonna Ciccone

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