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I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
– Maurice Sendak
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I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
– Hugh Laurie
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
– William James
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How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
– Paul Sweeney
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How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
– Dan Savage
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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
– Oswald Chambers
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History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
– Wendell Willkie
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Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
– Beth Ditto
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
– K. D. Lang
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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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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
– Samuel Johnson
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
– Abu Bakr
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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
– Rosalia de Castro
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Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
– Henry Drummond
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Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.
– Eugenio Montale
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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
– George A. Smith
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
– Pierre Corneille
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
– Marcel Proust
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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
– Andrei Platonov
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
– Adam Smith
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
– Joseph Butler
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
– Marquis de Sade
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
– Garth Brooks
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Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
– Julia Roberts
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Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
– Oscar Levant
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
– Billy Wilder
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
– Bar Refaeli
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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
– Martin Yan
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
– Joyce Grenfell
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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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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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Happiness is only real when shared.
– Christopher McCandless
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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
– James Van Der Zee
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Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
– Ellen Pompeo
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
– Zoe Saldana
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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
– Theodor Adorno
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
– Thomas Jefferson
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
– Stephen Fry
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
– Thomas Merton
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
– Richard Whately
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
– Blaise Pascal
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Happiness is making your dreams come true.
– Jourdan Dunn
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Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.
– James Allen
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
– Benjamin Spock
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
– Marquis de Sade
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Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
– Henry Van Dyke
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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
– Ingrid Bergman
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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
– Frank McCourt
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
– Napoleon Hill
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
– Marcel Proust
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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
– Dennis Prager
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
– Logan P. Smith
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Happiness is always a coincidence.
– Jose Bergamin
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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
– Robert Orben
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
– Baruch Spinoza
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
– Jane Porter
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
– Polly Toynbee
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
– Aldous Huxley
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Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.
– Hermann Hesse
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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
– Valerie Bertinelli
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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
– William S. Burroughs
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
– Douglas Horton
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Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.
– John Harrigan
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Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
– Richard Ford
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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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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
– Jose Marti
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Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
– Tom Wilson
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
– Dale Carnegie
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
– Joseph Butler
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
– Barry Sanders
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
– Marguerite Gardiner
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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
– John Stossel
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Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
– David O. McKay
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
– George Washington
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
– Walter Savage Landor
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God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
– Red Skelton
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God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
– Billy Graham
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
– Aldous Huxley
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Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
– Emily Procter
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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
– Andrew Weil
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
– Ambrose Bierce
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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
– Dennis Prager
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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
– Eustace Budgell
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
– Euripides
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
– Alastair Campbell
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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
– Aeschylus
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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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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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For me, love is happiness and inspiration.
– Leona Lewis
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