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" 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. "

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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. "

Nhat Hanh

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Happiness

" I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. "

" The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. "

" While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. "

" I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated. "

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

" 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. "

" Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. "

" Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. "

" Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. "

" Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it. "

" Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. "

Anita Baker

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" 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

School

Happy

Happiness

" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "

" Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. "

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. "

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

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

" Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. "

" The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion. "

Richard Gere

Keeps

Happiness

" Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success! "

" The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. "

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

" I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. "

" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "

" It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. "

" It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. "

" Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. "

" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "