Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy.
- Topic: Happiness
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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› Kahlil Gibran
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
› Victor Hugo
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
› Andrew Carnegie
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
› Thomas Jefferson
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
› Booth Tarkington
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
› Albert Camus
Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
› John Stuart Mill
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
› Bertrand Russell
