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" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

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" There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness. "

" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. "

" Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude. "

" Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble. "

Henry B. Eyring

" A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. "

" The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. "

" The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. "

" Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. "

" If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. "

" Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. "

" Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. "

Francois Lelord

" Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. "

" Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. "

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

" It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. "

" Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't. "

" A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. "

" Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. "

William S. Burroughs

" I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. "

Martin Seligman

" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. "

Christie Brinkley

" Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. "

Viktor E. Frankl

" There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. "

" 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? "

Frederic Chopin

" As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. "

Bharati Mukherjee

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

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