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" Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. "
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness
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" Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. "
George Santayana
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" I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. "
Frederic Chopin
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" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "
Ernest Hemingway
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" There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness. "
Pepa
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" Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy. "
Richard Branson
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" We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. "
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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" Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. "
Andy Rooney
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" To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' "
Viktor E. Frankl
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" People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. "
Lucinda Williams
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" My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life. "
Alexandra Stoddard
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Suffering
" Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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" Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed. "
Aneurin Barnard
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You
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" I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected. "
Maeve Binchy
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" Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others. "
Indira Gandhi
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" The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence. "
Blase J. Cupich
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Shadow
Life
" Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. "
Friedrich Schiller
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" I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. "
John Paul Jones
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Peace
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" 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. "
Elizabeth Bibesco
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" Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. "
Henry Van Dyke
Depend
Does
Outward
" The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing. "
Charlie Ebersol
World
Joy
Happiness
" I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. "
Paulo Coelho
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Happy
" If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. "
Josh Billings
Woman
Time
Lost
" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "
Jules Verne
Everything
Others
Learn
" How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. "
William James
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Endure
" The most simple things can bring the most happiness. "
Izabella Scorupco
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" When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have. "
Emily Blunt
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" Unfortunately but absolutely fair to all, the one thing money can't buy is health - and happiness. "
Yolanda Hadid
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" There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. "
Aldous Huxley
Somebody
Boring
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" Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits. "
Eliot Schrefer
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Brain
End