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" Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. "

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" Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. "

" Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. "

" There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. "

" Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. "

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" It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. "

" Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. "

" I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself. "

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

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" Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude. "

" If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. "

Maurice Chevalier

" There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. "

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" On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long! "

Chandler Massey

" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. "

" To forget oneself is to be happy. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. "

Anthony Trollope

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

Pierre Corneille

" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. "

" Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. "

" Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. "

" In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. "

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "

" 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. "

" Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. "

" Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" I think happiness is love. "