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" Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. "

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" The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. "

" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "

" Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. "

" You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. "

" To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. "

Bertrand Russell

" I am not very fond of spotlight or even, for that matter, money. I appreciate the small things that give me joy. The most precious forms of happiness often come from things that money cannot buy. "

" The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence. "

Blase J. Cupich

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

" Happiness is only real when shared. "

Christopher McCandless

" Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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

" I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest. "

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

" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager. "

" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "

" It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. "

Charles Spurgeon

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

" Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. "

" Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America. "

" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. "

" Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. "

" Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. "

Sarah McLachlan

" I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things. "

" I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. "

Natascha McElhone