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" For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. "

Thomas Bulfinch

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" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

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" God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. "

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" I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. "

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" Love is trembling happiness. "

" The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. "

" Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. "

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" Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.' "

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" The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. "

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" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

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" 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. "

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