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" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

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" Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! "

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" The groundwork of all happiness is health. "

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" When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. "

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" One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. "

" I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body. "

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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

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" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. "

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" There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth. "

Thomas S. Monson

" You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. "

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

Francis Hutcheson

" Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. "

" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

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" The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. "

Bertrand Russell

" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "

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" The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. "

" I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. "

" Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. "

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" Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved. "

" We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. "

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

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" When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. "