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" Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. "

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

" I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. "

" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "

Kaui Hart Hemmings

" Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind. "

" Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. "

" I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly. "

" And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. "

" Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. "

" Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. "

" Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality. "

" The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down. "

" I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. "

" 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. "

" The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. "

" Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness. "

Nicholas A. Christakis

" The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. "

" Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. "

" Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. "

" I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old. "

" I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. "

" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "

" There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. "

" Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved. "

" 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. "

" The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. "

Jonathan Edwards

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

" A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. "

" The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. "

Bertrand Russell