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" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "

Ernest Hemingway

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" The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. "

" Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. "

" 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 for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. "

" Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. "

" Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. "

" I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. "

" The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it. "

" Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. "

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

Walter Savage Landor

" Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems. "

Karen Salmansohn

" What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! "

Elizabeth Bibesco

" It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. "

" What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy. "

" My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. "

" There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth. "

Thomas S. Monson

" When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. "

Joyce Carol Oates

" Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. "

" 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. "

" I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life. I try not to take anything too seriously. I try to - and I do - find a ton of joy and happiness in my life, and I think that helps you stay youthful. "

" A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. "

" The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. "

Ernest Hemingway

" How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. "

William Ellery Channing

" There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. "

" If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. "

" Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. "

" Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. "

" 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. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" 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