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" I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. "

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" As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus. "

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" In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. "

" Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways. "

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" Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body. Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet. "

" Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. "

" In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation. "

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

" It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. "

" Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. "

" Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. "

" The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. "

" Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life. "

" Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live. "

" For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "

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" Happiness is the cessation of suffering. "

" We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion. "

" I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either. "

" Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. "

Robert Staughton Lynd

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" All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. "

" To buy happiness is to sell soul. "

" 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. "

" Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. "

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" I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress. "

" The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. "

" A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. "

" What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! "

" 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 person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . "

" He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. "

" Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. "