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" Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. "
Ogden Nash
Every
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" Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. "
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" Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. "
Red Skelton
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" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. "
Andre Gide
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" It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. "
Agnes Repplier
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Easy
Possible
" Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. "
Henri Frederic Amiel
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" It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "
Desiderius Erasmus
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" The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. "
Milan Kundera
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Laughter
" Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. "
William Cobbett
Misery
Mind
Lives
" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "
Victor Hugo
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Necessary
Does
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Moments
Happiness
Good Things
" When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. "
Arthur Ashe
Together
Me
Happiness
" In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so. "
Clayton M. Christensen
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Life
Pain
" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Humor
Grief
Sadness
" Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! "
Ludwig van Beethoven
Happiness
People
Joy
" Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. "
Alphonse de Lamartine
Stronger
Grief
Happiness
" No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. "
Helen Keller
Matter
Man
Wise
" Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. "
George Burns
You
Bad
Good
" There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. "
Aldous Huxley
Somebody
Boring
Something
" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "
Thomas Merton
Ends
Ambition
Begins
" 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. "
Thor Heyerdahl
Society
Technology
Happiness
" Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. "
Henry St. John
Health
Body
Happiness
" No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. "
Richard Simmons
Peace
Yourself
You
" I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. "
Zhuangzi
River
Know
Joy
" There's no greater source of happiness than giving yourself to other people. "
Lamman Rucker
Giving
Happiness
People
" I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. "
Queen Victoria
Lottery
Happiness
Woman
" Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life
Will
Decision
" I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. "
Steve Kerr
Opportunity
Happiness
Goals
" Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. "
Pablo Picasso
Life
Hate
Work