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" The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. "

William Ralph Inge

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" I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy. "

" I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. "

" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. "

" I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being. "

" 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. "

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" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "

Ernest Hemingway

" For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

" I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food. "

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" I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. "

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" It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. "

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" Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. "

" I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. "

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" You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy. "

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" In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. "