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" People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. "

Lucinda Williams

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" I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. "

" We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. "

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" Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. "

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" Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. "

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" I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. "

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" Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. "

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" I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on. "

" To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. "

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" Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. "

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" Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. "

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