The document discusses different perspectives on what happiness is. It defines happiness as a state of mind where one feels that life is good. Several quotes emphasize that true happiness comes from finding meaning and purpose in one's work, and making others happy. The final view is that happiness depends more on one's attitudes and perspective than external circumstances.

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2. Happiness is a state of the mind. The dictionary definition is "feelings of joy and pleasure mingled together”. A feeling of happiness is more than just an experience of joy or pleasure. It is a state of mind where the individual feels that life is good.

3. Happiness for me is to know that my life has meaning and purpose, and that every day my life touches others in a positive way--whether to make them laugh or learn or both at once!

4. To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content. The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

5. Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. Happiness is when your mind is thinking through your heart.

6. Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes

7. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

8. Let's define happiness as a feeling of contentment created when all of one's physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual and spiritual needs have been gratified.

9. Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow. I give thanks for the joy and happiness in life and trust that God does indeed want me to be happy.

10. Happiness comes only from appreciating what you have right now. You can even be happy by appreciating your troubles because they are helping to build your character.

11. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Life can be divided into the horrible and miserable.

12. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

13. Happiness is not in having or being —it is in the doing. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

14. The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

15. Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.

16. Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design. Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

17. Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember.

18. If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. Independence is happiness.

19. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open.

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