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" False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. "

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" 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. "

" If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. "

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" I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music. "

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

" 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. "

" The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. "

" What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. "

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" The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. "

" How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. "

" I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. "

" There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. "

" I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. "

" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "

" The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. "

" It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. "

" Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give. "

" There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. "

" I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. "

" Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. "

" Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. "

" Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness. "

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" Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. "

" You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. "

" Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. "

" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

" I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it. "

" Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. "

" If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. "

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