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" The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. "

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" Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. "

" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

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" Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. "

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" 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 only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. "

" My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. "

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" Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. "

" I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy. "

" It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you. "

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" Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. "

" 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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" Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. "

" A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. "

" Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality. "

" The secret of happiness is something to do. "

" Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. "

" If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "

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" If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. "

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" Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? "

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" Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. "

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" 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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" Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. "

" Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. "

" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "

" We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. "

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" Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness. "