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" The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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" Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. "

William Cobbett

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "

George Washington

" Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. "

" Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. "

" Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. "

Marquis de Sade

" God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army. "

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

" No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. "

Christian Nestell Bovee

" The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. "

" As a survivor of the 20th-century Race Wars, my back remains unbent, and I move forward for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all who were created equal in God's eyes. "

" The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. "

" All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. "

" I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. "

" Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. "

" While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. "

Nikos Kazantzakis

" Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. "

" Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits. "

" Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. "

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

" To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. "

J. B. Priestley

" To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. "

" A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. "

Elsa Schiaparelli

" Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. "

" One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. "

" There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. "

" The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. "

" I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "

" Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. "