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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can.