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" Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. "

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" 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. "

" Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. "

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" There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. "

" Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. "

" You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. "

" There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. "

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

" I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. "

" But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? "

" 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. "

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" Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. "

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

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" Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. "

" Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. "

" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

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" Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. "

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" 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. "

" Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. "

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