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" If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations. "

Adam Yauch

Mind

Happiness

Life

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" Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. "

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" Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. "

" Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. "

" Independence is happiness. "

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" In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. "

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

" All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. "

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. "

" One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action. "

" Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. "

" Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. "

" What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. "

" Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. "

" That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way. "

" Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. "

" Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. "

" When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. "

" Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality. "

" People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? "