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" Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? "

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" When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. "

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

" The right to happiness is fundamental. "

" The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. "

" The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. "

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" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

" To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole. "

" The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. "

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

" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "

" The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. "

" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "

" It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. "

" Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. "

" For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "

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" Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed. "

" I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. "

" In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? "

" To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. "

" You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. "

" If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist! "

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

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" Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. "

" Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. "

" Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. "

" Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. "

" Happiness depends upon ourselves. "

" It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. "

" To apply Kim Jong Il's patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the General's intentions and desires for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of all generations to come and to carry on all work for achieving the prosperity of the country in the way he did. "