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" Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. "

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" What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. "

" God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. "

Josephine Baker

" Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. "

" A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. "

" Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. "

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

Robert Baden-Powell

" Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness. "

" Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. "

" Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. "

Bertrand Russell

" Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. "

" Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. "

" Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits. "

" My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. "

" If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth. "

" Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! "

Frederick William Faber

" Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. "

" The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. "

" Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. "

" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of 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. "

" 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. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. "

" That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. "

" Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. "

" Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. "