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" Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. "

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" Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something. "

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" Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. "

" Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. "

" Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? "

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" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

" There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "

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

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" The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. "

" Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. "

" Happiness is an inside job. "

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

" It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. "

" Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' "

" Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. "

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