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" It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. "

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" Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. "

" 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. "

" For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. "

Matthew Stewart

" I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. "

Jamaica Kincaid

" To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. "

" I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. "

" Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. "

" Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. "

" The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. "

" The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. "

" Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. "

" We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us. "

" But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. "

William Shakespeare

" Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy. "

Richard Branson

" 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. "

" True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. "

" There is no happiness outside of ourselves. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. "

" There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. "

" To describe happiness is to diminish it. "

" America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" Happiness is an inside job. "

William Arthur Ward

" We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. "

Charlie Chaplin

" If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. "

" If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that. "

Gisele Bundchen

" How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. "

William Ellery Channing

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

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

" Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. "

" Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. "

Robert A. Heinlein