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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

— William James

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.

— James E. Faust

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

— Ellen Key

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

— Daniel Dennett

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

— John Ruskin

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

— J. Donald Walters

Men want to make women happy.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

— Aristotle

✗Opposing Perspectives

The secret of happiness is something to do.

— John Burroughs

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

— William Morris