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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 get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
– John Mayer
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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 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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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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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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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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Where fear is, happiness is not.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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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 if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
– Chris Evans
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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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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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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're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
– Alanis Morissette
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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 believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
– Paul Ryan
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We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
– Bernard Loiseau
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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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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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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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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
– Daisaku Ikeda
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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 is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
– Kevyn Aucoin
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
– James Madison
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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, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
– Samuel Johnson
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
– Nelson Mandela
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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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