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" Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. "

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" I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things. "

" The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. "

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" Independence is happiness. "

Susan B. Anthony

" It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. "

" Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America. "

" During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!' "

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

" I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. "

" For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. "

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" It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. "

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

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

" America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. "

" My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to. "

" Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. "

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" Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. "

" To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. "

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" The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. "

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" Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. "

" Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. "

" Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. "

" What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. "

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" That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. "

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" The secret of happiness is something to do. "

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" The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. "

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