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

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" Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" 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. "

" Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. "

" 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. "

" True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. "

John W. Gardner

" Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. "

Bertrand Russell

" The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. "

" I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. "

" The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. "

Martha Washington

" Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. "

" 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. "

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

" Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. "

" If you want to be happy, be. "

" The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve. "

" Never mind your happiness; do your duty. "

" I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. "

Frederic Chopin

" Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. "

" So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. "

Booth Tarkington

" Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. "

Carrie Underwood

" Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. "

William E. Gladstone

" There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. "

" If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. "

" 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. "

Malcolm Muggeridge