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Mary McCormack on happiness
Author: Mary McCormack“I’ve done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I’ve found no evidence that it brings happiness.” -Mary McCormack
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Nassau William Senior on happiness
Author: Nassau William Senior“With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.” -Nassau William Senior
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James Thomson on happiness
Author: James Thomson“That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.” -James Thomson
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Francis Wright on happiness
Author: Francis Wright“We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.” -Francis Wright
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Rob Brydon on happiness
Author: Rob Brydon“The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don’t think I equate career success with personal happiness.” -Rob Brydon
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Giraldus Cambrensis on happiness
Author: Giraldus Cambrensis“Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.” -Giraldus Cambrensis
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Kaya Scodelario on happiness
Author: Kaya Scodelario“Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market – I have so many vintage pieces from there it’s unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.” -Kaya Scodelario
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Sarah Orne Jewett on happiness
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
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Arizona Muse on happiness
Author: Arizona Muse“I don’t know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it’s a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn’t make it my trademark on purpose.” -Arizona Muse
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Arthur C. Brooks on happiness
Author: Arthur C. Brooks“The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person’s belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.” -Arthur C. Brooks
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Marla Gibbs on happiness
Author: Marla Gibbs“In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.” -Marla Gibbs
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Henry James Sumner Maine on happiness
Author: Henry James Sumner Maine“Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.” -Henry James Sumner Maine
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Philip Sidney on happiness
Author: Philip Sidney“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.” -Philip Sidney
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Dyan Cannon on happiness
Author: Dyan Cannon“Even when there are times that we’re not happy, happiness will creep in.” -Dyan Cannon
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Cab Calloway on happiness
Author: Cab Calloway“90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody’s interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.” -Cab Calloway
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Ioan Gruffudd on happiness
Author: Ioan Gruffudd“As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.” -Ioan Gruffudd
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Connie Nielsen on happiness
Author: Connie Nielsen“If you asked somebody, ‘what do you wish for in life?’ they wouldn’t say ‘happiness.’ I would have answered ‘excitement, knowledge,’ God knows – I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not ‘happiness’. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.” -Connie Nielsen
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Margaret Oliphant on happiness
Author: Margaret Oliphant“What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?” -Margaret Oliphant
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Arthur Hiller on happiness
Author: Arthur Hiller“So I decided to move that scene in the doctor’s office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.” -Arthur Hiller
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Pratibha Patil on happiness
Author: Pratibha Patil“I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.” -Pratibha Patil
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Justin Long on happiness
Author: Justin Long“If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I’ve hit the lottery.” -Justin Long
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John Leguizamo on happiness
Author: John Leguizamo“Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don’t for a long time.” -John Leguizamo
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Howard Hughes on happiness
Author: Howard Hughes“Money can’t buy happiness.” -Howard Hughes
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August Strindberg on happiness
Author: August Strindberg“Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.” -August Strindberg