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" I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. "

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Liberty Hyde Bailey

" In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. "

" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "

" Happiness is only real when shared. "

Christopher McCandless

" My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. "

" If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. "

" Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give. "

" Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. "

" Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. "

" I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. "

" We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. "

" Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "

Leonard Boswell

" 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. "

" Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. "

" Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward. "

" When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. "

" Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. "

Andrei Platonov

" Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. "

Swami Sivananda

" No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. "

" In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. "

Ernest Hemingway

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. "

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

" Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. "

" It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. "

" My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. "

" Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. "