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" For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. "

Matthew Stewart

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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. "

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" We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. "

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" It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. "

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" 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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" Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. "

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" I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. "

" So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. "

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" 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. "

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" In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation. "

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

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

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" I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food. "

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" Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. "

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" Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. "

" I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico. "

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" To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. "

" True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. "

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" I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes. "

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" 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. "

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" If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. "

" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

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" Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "

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