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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
– Polly Toynbee
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
– James F. Cooper
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Independence is happiness.
– Susan B. Anthony
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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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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
– Maurice Chevalier
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
– David Brainerd
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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
– Leon Kass
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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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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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If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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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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If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
– George Westinghouse
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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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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
– Bertrand Russell
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I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
– Dominic Monaghan
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I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
– David Duchovny
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I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
– Bethenny Frankel
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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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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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I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.
– Michael Landon
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I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
– Ricky Williams
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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'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
– Suge Knight
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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'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
– Coretta Scott King
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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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I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.
– Criss Angel
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I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
– Rick Pitino
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
– Samuel Johnson
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I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
– Alanis Morissette
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
– Camille Claudel
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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
– Norodom Sihamoni
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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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I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
– Mary MacLane
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I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
– Rush Limbaugh
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I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
– Josh Lucas
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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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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
– Harlan Coben
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I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.
– Diane Lane
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I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
– Brittany Murphy
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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 here in America.
– Youssou N'Dour
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I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
– Queen Victoria
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I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
– Jamie Lee Curtis
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I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.
– Wilbur Smith
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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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I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
– Jamie Lee Curtis
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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
– William Weld
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I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.
– Charisma Carpenter
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I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
– Nicki Minaj
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I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
– Thomas Huxley
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I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
– James Hillman
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
– Kanye West
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I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
– Michael J. Fox
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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
– Ric Ocasek
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I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
– Ezra Miller
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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.
– Robert Powell
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I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
– Chris Evans
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
– Brandon Boyd
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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
– Julia Ward Howe
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I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
– Alain Delon
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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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I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.
– Kenny Rogers
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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
– Audrey Hepburn
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
– Patricia Heaton
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
– Taylor Swift
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
– Giacomo Casanova
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I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
– Hugh Laurie
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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 have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
– John Burroughs
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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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I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
– Sylvia Kristel
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I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
– Daniel Johns
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I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
– John Belushi
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I get way too much happiness from good food.
– Elizabeth Olsen
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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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I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
– Richard Eyre
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I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
– Joni Mitchell
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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
– Dan Savage
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I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
– Gisele Bundchen
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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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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
– Vanessa Paradis
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
– Nana Mouskouri
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Victoria Woodhull
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I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'
– Lea Michele
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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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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
– Pierre Corneille
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I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
– Richard Eyre
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I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
– Giorgio Armani
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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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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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I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
– Lillie Langtry
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
– Taylor Caldwell
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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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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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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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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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