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" Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. "

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" I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being. "

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" The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "

" To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. "

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" We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. "

" When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. "

" 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. "

" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "

" Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. "

" I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. "

" Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something. "

" If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success. "

" Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. "

" I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. "

" 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 happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. "

" Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. "

" There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy. "

" 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? "

" Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. "

" All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. "

" Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. "

" Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. "

" Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. "

" The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being. "

" 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

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" I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy. "

" There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. "

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

" The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind. "

" If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. "