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" 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.' "

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" While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. "

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Sometimes

" You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. "

" The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. "

" Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. "

" I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. "

" The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. "

" I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always. "

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

" In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that. "

" A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? "

" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "

" 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. "

" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "

" Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. "

" How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. "

" I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. "

" How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. "

" 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. "

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

" You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy. "

" Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. "

" I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it. "

" 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. "

Helen McCrory

Decision

Happiness

" There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being. "

" There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. "

" Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. "

" True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature. "

Tara Brach

Home

Love

" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "

" Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. "

" Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness. "

Tiger Shroff

Tough Times

Arts