Happiness

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• Be happy while you're living for you're a long time dead. (Scotland)

• One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. (China)

• Happiness is a place between too little and too much. (Finnish)

• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. (China)

• One who plants a garden plants happiness. (China)

• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. (Sweden)

• Happiness is not a horse, you can't harness it. (Russia)

• Money can't buy happiness. [Origin unknown]

• Grief and joy are a revolving wheel. (India)

• A contented mind is a continual feast. (England)

• Where one was born, every blade of grass pleases. (Italy)

• Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own. (Malta)