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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
– Sophocles
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What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
– Richard Owen Cambridge
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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
– Bernard Cornwell
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
– Adam Smith
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Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
– Andy Grammer
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We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
– Emma Thompson
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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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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
– Pierre Corneille
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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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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
– Ethel Percy Andrus
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
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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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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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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
– Samuel Johnson
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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
– Charlie Chaplin
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
– Mary Gordon
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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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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
– Mary Oliver
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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
– Mary Astell
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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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Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
– Artie Lange
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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
– John Stuart Mill
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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
– Doug Coupland
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
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True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
– William J. H. Boetcker
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
– Helen Keller
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
– Ben Jonson
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
– Alexander Smith
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Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Jim Ryun
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To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
– Christina Ricci
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To me, the most important thing is happiness.
– Sheryl Swoopes
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To me, flowers are happiness.
– Stefano Gabbana
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
– Matthew Arnold
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
– Stendhal
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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.
– Douglas Horton
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
– Victor Hugo
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
– Hermann Hesse
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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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Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
– Azar Nafisi
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This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.
– Ai Weiwei
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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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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
– Herman Hesse
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There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
– Claire Forlani
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
– Fiona Shaw
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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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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
– Aldous Huxley
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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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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
– Joyce Grenfell
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
– Samuel Johnson
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
– Anthony Trollope
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There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
– Bryant McGill
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There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
– Anwar Sadat
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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
– Henry Drummond
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
– Dante Alighieri
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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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There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.
– Kesha
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
– Chanakya
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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
– Jose Marti
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The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Jung
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
– Candace Bushnell
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The will of man is his happiness.
– Friedrich Schiller
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
– Frederick Douglass
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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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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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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
– Hannah Arendt
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
– William Morris
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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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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
– Joseph Butler
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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
– Herbert Read
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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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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
– Bertrand Russell
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
– F. H. Bradley
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
– Carl Sandburg
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The right to happiness is fundamental.
– Anna Pavlova
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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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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
– Alexander Alekhine
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
– Joseph Butler
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
– Hal Sparks
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The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
– Clayton Christensen
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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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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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The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
– Paula Cole
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The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
– Al Green
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The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
– Izabella Scorupco
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
– Ogden Nash
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The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
– Donny Osmond
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
– Gilbert Murray
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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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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
– Charles Van Doren
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