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" Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. "

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" Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. "

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" Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. "

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" Happiness is no laughing matter. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. "

" Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. "

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" Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. "

" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

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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. "

" Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. "

" There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. "

Dante Alighieri

" Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. "

" Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. "

" Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life. "

" We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. "

" Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. "

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" Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. "

" The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. "

" The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful. "

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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. "

" You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. "

" The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. "

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" Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. "

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" A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness. "

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