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" Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. "

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" I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary. "

" Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. "

Alexandre Dumas

" I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. "

" 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. "

Jamaica Kincaid

" I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. "

William Clay Ford, Jr.

" Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service. "

Marquis de Lafayette

" You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. "

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. "

" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "

" 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. "

" If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. "

" Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. "

" Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. "

Bernard Meltzer

" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "

" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

Charles Spurgeon

" A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. "

" Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. "

Norman Vincent Peale

" Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. "

" 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. "

" Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. "

" Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved. "

" Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. "

Valerie Bertinelli

" Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness. "

" We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. "

Walter Savage Landor

" Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. "

" I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated. "

Charles M. Schwab