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" An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. "

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" Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too. "

" Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. "

" There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. "

" Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. "

" A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. "

" What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. "

" 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

" Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. "

" Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. "

" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. "

Donatella Versace

" 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. "

" Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. "

" In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? "

" I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. "

Princess Margaret

" America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" 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. "

" We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body. "

Gabrielle Bernstein

" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. "

" While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. "

Nikos Kazantzakis

" Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. "

" During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!' "

Marquis de Lafayette

" Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality. "

" It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. "

Pursuit Of Happiness

" Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness. "

" Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. "

" What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton