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" 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. "

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" Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. "

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" I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. "

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" My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. "

" I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus. "

" What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. "

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" If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. "

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

" Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. "

" 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with. "

" Happiness is a direction, not a place. "

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" Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. "

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" I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. "

" I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization. "

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" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "

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" Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. "

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" The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. "

" I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always. "

" The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. "

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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. "

" My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. "

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" In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so. "

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" Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. "

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" America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. "

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" You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. "

" And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. "