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" Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "

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" I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system. "

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

" 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. "

Jennifer Connelly

" Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits. "

" The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. "

" Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. "

" Happiness is the natural flower of duty. "

Phillips Brooks

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. "

" Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! "

Frederick William Faber

" 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. "

" There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. "

" I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. "

" One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. "

" The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. "

John Mason Brown

" I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. "

" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" 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. "

" The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? "

" Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. "

" Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. "

" 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. "

" True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. "

" To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. "

Joyce Carol Oates

" Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. "

" It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long! "

Chandler Massey

" The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque. "