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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
– Iris Murdoch
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
– Alfred de Musset
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Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
– Agnes Martin
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Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
– Sarah McLachlan
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
– Ogden Nash
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
– Ogden Nash
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My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
– Horatio Nelson
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Frank Norris
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
– Ted Nugent
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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
– Austin O'Malley
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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
– Conor Oberst
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
– Margaret Oliphant
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
– George Orwell
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
– Thomas Paine
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
– Chuck Palahniuk
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If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
– Evita Peron
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
– William Lyon Phelps
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Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
– Channing Pollock
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
– J. B. Priestley
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
– Linus Pauling
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Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
– Johann Pestalozzi
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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
– Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
– Philo
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A good education is another name for happiness.
– Ann Plato
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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 Knox Polk
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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
– Jacques Prevert
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
– V. S. Pritchett
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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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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
– Julia Roberts
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
– Pete Rose
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My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
– Diana Ross
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
– Joseph Roux
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
– Bertrand Russell
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
– Bertrand Russell
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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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Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
– Prem Rawal
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In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.
– Rex Reed
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
– Leo Tolstoy
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
– Barry Took
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
– Thomas Traherne
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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
– Thomas Traherne
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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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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
– Mark Twain
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
– Booth Tarkington
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
– Miguel de Unamuno
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
– Henry Van Dyke
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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
– Denis Waitley
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Happiness is an inside job.
– William Arthur Ward
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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
– Martha Washington
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
– Thornton Wilder
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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
– Hugh Walpole
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
– J. Donald Walters
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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
– J. Donald Walters
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
– J. Donald Walters
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
– J. Donald Walters
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
– William Butler Yeats
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
– Anonymous
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
– Leo C. Rosten
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
– Storm Jameson
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
– Nicole Kidman
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
– George Santayana
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
– George Sheehan
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
– C. P. Snow
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
– Thomas Szasz
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
– Helen Keller
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Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
– George Mason
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You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
– Brad Garrett
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
– Candace Bushnell
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You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
– Shahrukh Khan
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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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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
– Vivien Leigh
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You find happiness where you find it.
– Anna Paquin
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You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
– Tracy Kidder
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You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
– Philip Kaufman
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You can be happy where you are.
– Joel Osteen
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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
– Franz Schubert
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Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.
– Debra Messing
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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
– David Sarnoff
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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
– Sophocles
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Sarah Vowell
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When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
– Emily Blunt
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When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
– Suze Orman
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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
– Daniel Kahneman
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
– Arthur Ashe
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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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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
– Lynn Johnston
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When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
– Paul Ryan
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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
– Tom Ford
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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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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
– Anna Pavlova
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