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" Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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" My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. "

" When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. "

" Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. "

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" Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. "

" In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. "

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

" Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality. "

" There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. "

" While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. "

" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "

" True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. "

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" 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. "

" Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.' "

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

" 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. "

" To forget oneself is to be happy. "

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" What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? "

" Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' "

" It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. "

" I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. "

" And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. "

" Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. "