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" Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. "

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" It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. "

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

Dante Alighieri

" 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with. "

" Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. "

Francois Lelord

" Joys divided are increased. "

Josiah Gilbert Holland

" Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. "

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "

" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "

" A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. "

" It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. "

" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. "

William Dean Howells

" 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. "

Charles Spurgeon

" I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. "

Bertrand Russell

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "

" You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. "

" 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. "

" I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look. "

Christie Brinkley

" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

Chuck Palahniuk

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

" My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life. "

Alexandra Stoddard

" Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

" I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it. "

" The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. "

Emanuel Swedenborg

" Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. "