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" The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. "

John Mason Brown

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" Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport. "

" We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. "

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" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "

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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. "

" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "

" To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole. "

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

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" The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward. "

" Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy. "

" Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. "

" Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. "

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" There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" To describe happiness is to diminish it. "

" Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! "

Freddie Mercury

" Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world. "

Adoniram Judson

" I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. "

John Stuart Mill

" Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability. "

" Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life. "

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" Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! "

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" There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. "

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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" True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. "

" I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible. "

" Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. "

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" Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. "

" A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. "