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" I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. "

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

" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "

" I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. "

" Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. "

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

" I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food. "

" 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. "

" We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. "

" By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped. "

" People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy. "

" Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. "

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" Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. "

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

" The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. "

" While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. "

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" There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "

" If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. "

" We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. "

" My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky. "

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