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" I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me. "

Harry Dean Stanton

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" Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. "

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" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. "

" I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it. "

" People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful. "

" Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. "

" 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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" Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! "

Freddie Mercury

" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "

" If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. "

Maurice Chevalier

" False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. "

Robert Baden-Powell

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

" Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident. "

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" Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. "

Anthony Hopkins

" 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. "

" Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. "

" Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. "

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" You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it. "

Harry Dean Stanton

" Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. "

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" It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. "

" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "

" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "

George Washington

" The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. "

" I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. "

" If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. "