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" I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. "

William Godwin

Knowledge

Power

Happiness

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" Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life. "

" The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

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" Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. "

" Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. "

" The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. "

" I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. "

" Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. "

" To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' "

" I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being. "

" You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. "

" My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to. "

" It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others. "

" The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. "

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Man

Happiness

Exist

" I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. "

" What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne? "

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

" The groundwork of all happiness is health. "

" I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. "

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

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

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You

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" Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. "

" I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men. "

" To buy happiness is to sell soul. "

" 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. "

" Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness. "