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" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "

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" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

" Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. "

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" Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. "

" There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. "

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

" Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. "

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" The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension. "

" I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success. "

" There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. "

" The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. "

" Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' "

" But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? "

" All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. "

" Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. "

" 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 a choice that requires effort at times. "

" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. "

William S. Burroughs

" Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. "

" There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. "

George Washington

" Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. "

" The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. "

" There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "

" Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. "

" The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. "

" To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. "

Bertrand Russell

" I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community. "

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" Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. "