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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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" An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. "

" Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. "

" Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. "

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" I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. "

" There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. "

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" The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. "

" If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. "

" Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. "

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" You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are. "

" Tell your wife often how terrific she looks. "

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" The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. "

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" The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. "

" Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. "

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" The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. "

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

" True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. "

" Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. "

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" 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. "

" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

" I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. "

" When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce. "

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" 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. "

" Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God. "

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" My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. "

" Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. "

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" Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. "

" Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. "

" I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. "

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