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" Happiness is only real when shared. "

Christopher McCandless

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" There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. "

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" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "

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" We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country. "

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" I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. "

" 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. "

" Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. "

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" You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. "

" Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved. "

" I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. "

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" If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. "

" In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. "

Cesare Beccaria

" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "

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" Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. "

" To describe happiness is to diminish it. "

" I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. "

" People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. "

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" True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. "

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" An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. "

" Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. "

" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

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" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "

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" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "

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" The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. "