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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. "

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" Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. "

" Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. "

" One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. "

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" I want happiness for the players. "

" Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. "

" Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. "

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" The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. "

" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

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" I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man. "

" Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. "

" Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. "

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" There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. "

Alfred de Musset

" Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. "

" 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. "

" Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved. "

" Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. "

" I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. "

" Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. "

Thomas Jefferson

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

H. P. Lovecraft

" 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. "

" Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. "

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" My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to. "

" Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. "

Service To Others

" Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. "

" People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does. "

" Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. "

" The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

" During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!' "

Marquis de Lafayette