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" Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life. "

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" Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. "

" Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. "

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" Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. "

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" Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. "

" I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. "

" Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. "

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" If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. "

" There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. "

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" The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful. "

" Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. "

" You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. "

" For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. "

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" The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. "

" I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. "

" 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. "

" Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. "

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" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. "

" I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated. "

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" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "

" Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. "

" Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. "

" The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. "

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" Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy. "

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" The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

" My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to. "

" I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. "