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" Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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" Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. "

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" We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. "

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" 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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" Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. "

" Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. "

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" Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. "

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" Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. "

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" Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. "

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" I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. "

" Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. "

" Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? "

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" One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. "

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

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

" We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. "

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" My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. "

" There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. "

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" There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. "

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" Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness. "

" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

" Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result. "