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" I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. "

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" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "

" Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. "

" Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness. "

" One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "

" Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. "

" Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. "

" Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. "

" Happiness is always a coincidence. "

" Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. "

" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. "

" Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems. "

Karen Salmansohn

" It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people. "

Hubert de Givenchy

" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

" I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system. "

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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

Thomas Jefferson

" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "

" If you want to be happy, be. "

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

" I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. "

John Paul Jones

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

" 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. "

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

" Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. "

Austin O'Malley

" I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. "

" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" No man was ever great by imitation. "

" Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. "

Albert Schweitzer

" I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself. "