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" Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. "

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" Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. "

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" I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. "

" Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. "

" Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. "

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" It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. "

" The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. "

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" Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. "

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" Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. "

" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "

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" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "

" Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

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" 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. "

" Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. "

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" Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. "

" America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. "

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" My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. "

" It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. "

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