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" Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. "

William E. Gladstone

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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. "

" In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so. "

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" The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. "

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" Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. "

" To describe happiness is to diminish it. "

" 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. "

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" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. "

" Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. "

" A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? "

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" I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. "

Malcolm Muggeridge

" Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. "

" Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' "

" I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. "

" A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. "

" Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. "

" Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.' "

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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? "

" One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. "

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" Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. "

" The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. "

" I am not very fond of spotlight or even, for that matter, money. I appreciate the small things that give me joy. The most precious forms of happiness often come from things that money cannot buy. "

" If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. "

" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

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" I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. "

" Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. "

" The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness. "

" Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. "