happiness
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘happiness’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” -Buddha
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“That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.” -Francis Hutcheson
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“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.” -James Smithson
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“Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.” -Monica Edwards
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“The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.” -David Wilmot
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“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.” -Frederick Delius
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“What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness ’twill bring?” -Richard Owen Cambridge
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“In Hollywood, if you don’t have happiness, you send out for it.” -Rex Reed
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“On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!” -Chandler Massey
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“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.” -Joyce Grenfell
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“Money cannot buy happiness.” -Annni-Frid Lyngstad
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“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.” -Lucan
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“Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.” -Chris Bailey
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“Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.” -Rachel Field
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“Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.” -Antonio Gala
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“No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.” -Charles Sumner
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“No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.” -Horatio Alger
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“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.” -Samuel Chase
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“When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.” -George Porter
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“The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.” -Winifred Holtby
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“Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.” -Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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“The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.” -Heinrich Mann
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“Happiness comes from… some curious adjustment to life.” -Hugh Walpole
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“Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.” -Kareena Kapoor
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“I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.” -Alfred Day Hershey
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“The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.” -Harry Harrison
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“A good education is another name for happiness.” -Ann Plato
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“Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.” -Islom Karimov
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“I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.” -Marc Webb
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“The last part, the part you’re now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.” -Charles Van Doren
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“Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.” -Alice Meynell
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“The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do.” -Ring Lardner
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“We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness – not disaster – to human beings.” -Kenichi Fukui
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“Happiness is only real when shared.” -Christopher McCandless
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“And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“I love being on stage. I’m completely, totally relaxed. It’s the only time in my life when I know where I am and what’s coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let’s just say happiness isn’t my default position. There are dark parts. I’m very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.”…
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“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.” -William Samuel Johnson
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“I’d rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don’t have it. I make other people’s problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.” -Brenda Fassie
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“So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.” -DJ Jazzy Jeff
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“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” -Ausonius
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“Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.” -Jean-Paul Marat
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“I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.” -Steve Kerr
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“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.” -Mary Wortley
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“We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.” -Bernard Loiseau
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“Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.” -Anna Pavlova
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“This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.” -Clayton Christensen
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“Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.” -Vittorio Alfieri
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“To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.” -Charles Inglis
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“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.” -Anthony Storr
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“The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families – happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.” -Kay…
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“We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.” -Henry Knox
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“Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.” -Merrill Markoe
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“Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.” -Russell M. Nelson
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“I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.” -Bennett Miller
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“Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.” -Channing Pollock
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“When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.” -Pia Toscano
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“From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.” -Benjamin Hoff
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“The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.” -Rod Parsley
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“By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here – the Infinite.” -Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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“Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can’t go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.” -Chris Webber
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“In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.” -Jeremy Collier
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“I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.” -Alain Delon
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“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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“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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“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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“Even when there are times that we’re not happy, happiness will creep in.” -Dyan Cannon
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“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.” -Philip Sidney
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.” -Peter MacKay
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“The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.” -Leni Riefenstahl
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“Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.” -Daniel Kahneman
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“I’m interested in the dark side of man. I’m interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.” -Elizabeth George
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“I’d learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.” -Rick Pitino
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“I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.” -Sylvia Kristel
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“The one happiness is to shut one’s door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.” -Eleanora Duse
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“The groundwork of all happiness is health.” -Leigh Hunt
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“It’s good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.” -Simon Travaglia
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“Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.” -John Mason Good
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“The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We’re all entitled to have the best we can.” -Loretta Swit
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“See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.” -James Freeman Clarke
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“We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.” -Jillian Michaels
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“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
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?” -Margaret Oliphant
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“Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.” -Robert Trout
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“I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.” -Linda Evans
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“For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.” -Ferdinand Mount
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“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.” -William Burroughs
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“Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.” -Carlo Collodi
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“There is no happiness outside of ourselves.” -Bryant McGill
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“I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren’t. I’ve opted for the road of happiness and long life.” -Ethan Suplee
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“I keep mementos from everything I’ve done. I’ve got my cab driver’s license from ‘Happiness.’ I’ve got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I’ve got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol… It’s all in a box in the garage.” -Jared Harris
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“Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.” -Artie Lange
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“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.” -Olympia Brown
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“It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will – We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.” -Jonathan Mayhew
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“Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.” -John Howe
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“We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.” -Mary Gordon
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“You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.” -Sergey Brin
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“The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.” -William Hall
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“For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.” -Thomas Bulfinch
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“I’ve never seen an obese person who has said, ‘I am well in my mind.’ Happiness stops food being a compensation.” -Pierre Dukan
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“Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.” -Amy Lowell
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“I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.” -Victoria Woodhull
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“Every age has its happiness and troubles.” -Jeanne Calment
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“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” -Daphne du Maurier
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“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.” -Fanny Burney
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“As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.” -Amber Riley
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“I’m an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.” -Patrick Duffy
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“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.” -V. S. Pritchett
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“Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.” -Marguerite Gardiner
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“I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it’s a good job that will continue.” -David Hyde Pierce
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“Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” -Leonard Boswell
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“The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.” -William H. Seward
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“As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.” -Bharati…
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“Success can create more madness than happiness.” -Billy Ocean
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“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.” -Daniel Dennett
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“Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life.” -Agnes Martin
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“My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.” -Evangeline Lilly
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“I always had a larger view. I’m interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.” -Amy Adams
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“Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn’t separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.” -Donna Rice
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“So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.” -Olivia Wilde
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“One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey
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“Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn’t be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.” -Richard Dreyfuss
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“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.” -Thomas Traherne
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“But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.” -Richard Cobden
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“We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people’s happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people’s lives has been severed.” -Park Geun-hye
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“Time the great destroyer of other men’s happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.” -Isaac D’Israeli
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“There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.” -Deborah Norville
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“Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it’s a place where people go to find something – to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.” -Colin Hay
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“I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.” -Lana Del Rey
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“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.” -Gertrude Jekyll
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“Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It’s not about stabbing each other in the back it’s about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.” -Ben Nicholson
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“I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.” -Jilly Cooper
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“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.” -John Buchan
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“Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.” -James K. Polk
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“An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.” -Orson Pratt
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“Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.” -Jermaine Jackson
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“If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.” -John Woolman
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“Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.” -Seal
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“We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” -Todd Akin
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“In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.” -Bob Brown
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“But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don’t have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they’re a movie star.” -Victoria Jackson
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“I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa – the economic poverty, the corruption – there’s a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing…
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“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” -John Mason Brown
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“Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it’s an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.” -Julie Christie
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“I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.” -Princess Margaret
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“Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.” -Guy Finley
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“Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.” -Richard Ford
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“My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’” -Kitty Kelley
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“Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.” -Aron Ralston
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“There’s a higher form of happiness in commitment. I’m counting on it.” -Claire Forlani
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“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
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“You know, American citizens, I don’t think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.” -Andrew Sullivan
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“According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.” -John Buchanan Robinson
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“Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.” -Donatella Versace
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“I’ve had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.” -Pierre Salinger
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“For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.” -James Payn
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“Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.” -Maurice Maeterlinck
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“Happiness is making your dreams come true.” -Jourdan Dunn
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