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"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."

"There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world."

"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own."

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."