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Serve the people you love. Focus less on what makes you happy, and more on how you can make a positive contribution to others.
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069 |
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The fundamental reason so many Western citizens don’t seem pleased with their lot, or even to believe their lives are mainly favored, is the discontinuity between prosperity and happiness.
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084 |
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Research… has shown that human beings are happiest around other people.
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179 |
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It may be that people grow steadily better off, yet seemingly no happier, because there is a baseline anxiety in all our hearts, and that anxiety is the fear of death.
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209 |
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Look for unhappiness and you will surely find it, as unhappiness is a condition anyone can enter. Look for meaning and you may be tested.
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211 |
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…positive psychology finds that people who take a grateful attitude toward life, counting their blessings rather than inventorying their complaints, tend to be healthier, happier, and more successful than others.
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229 |
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Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.
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245 |
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Happiness must come from within, and money cannot buy it. Whether or not we attain happiness will probably always be unrelated to whether life is getting better.
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317 |
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…laughter is a social activity – and the evidence is vast that people who have regular, satisfying connections to other people are healthier and happier.
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203 |
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If your business involves making people happy, then you can’t be good at it if you don’t care what people think.
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090 |
