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" Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. "

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" There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. "

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" True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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" Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. "

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

" I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. "

" 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 happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. "

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

" On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long! "

" Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. "

" You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. "

Vivien Leigh

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" The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. "

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

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" The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. "

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "

" There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness. "

" My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. "

" I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. "

" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "

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

" People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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" The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes. "

" Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident. "

" 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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" We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us. "

" Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. "

" People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive. "

" The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. "

" Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. "

" Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. "