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" Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. "

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" We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. "

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" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

" Just keep taking chances and having fun. "

" What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. "

" Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. "

Marquis de Sade

" How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. "

" We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. "

Pierre Corneille

" If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. "

" Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. "

" True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. "

" Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. "

" But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. "

William Shakespeare

" Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. "

John Stuart Mill

" Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. "

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

" Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. "

" One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. "

Maria Montessori

" I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen. "

" There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness. "

Denise Morrison

" There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing. "

" I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess. "

" Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with. "

" If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that. "

Gisele Bundchen

" Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. "

" Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. "

" Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. "

" Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. "

" There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. "

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

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam