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" 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. "

Pico Iyer

People

Happiness

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" All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. "

" Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. "

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" 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with. "

" The most simple things can bring the most happiness. "

" A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? "

" Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. "

" I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from. "

" The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. "

" The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque. "

" Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted. "

" I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community. "

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

" When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply. "

" The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. "

" It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive. "

" 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. "

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" Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. "

" The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. "

" When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. "

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

" The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. "

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