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Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

— Julian Baggini

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

— Nadia Giosia

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.

— Marcus Aurelius

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

— Helen Keller

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

— Alexandra Stoddard

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

— Daniel Dennett

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

— James Freeman Clarke

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

— Helen Keller

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

— Mahatma Gandhi

✗Opposing Perspectives

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

— Garth Brooks