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Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
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Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.


Marie Osmond
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.


Harlan Coben
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Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.


Ellen G. White
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
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I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.


Nicole Richie
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.


Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.


Marlon Brando
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.


Henry David Thoreau
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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.


Bill Hicks
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.


B. C. Forbes
I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'
Rami Malek
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
Guy Finley