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" Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. "

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" Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world. "

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

" Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. "

" Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. "

" People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive. "

" Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. "

" I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. "

" It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. "

" 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. "

" I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. "

" Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. "

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" Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. "

" We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country. "

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" If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "

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

" Happiness is the natural flower of duty. "

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" 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!' "

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" 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. "

" The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. "

" Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. "

" Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. "

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

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" A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness. "

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" Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. "

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" When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply. "