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

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" 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. "

Bernard Cornwell

" If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations. "

" God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army. "

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

" If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success. "

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

" Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful. "

" 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. "

" Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. "

Christie Brinkley

" For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. "

" Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

John Mason Brown

" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "

" Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. "

" Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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. "

" Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. "

" A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late. "

" 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. "

" There's no greater source of happiness than giving yourself to other people. "

" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "

" 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

" To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. "

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "

" If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down. "