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" The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. "

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" Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. "

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "

" Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. "

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" You can be happy where you are. "

" Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. "

John Stuart Mill

" Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. "

" It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that. "

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" Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. "

Bertrand Russell

" I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself. "

" I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. "

" One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency. "

Orison Swett Marden

" What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy. "

" Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" There is no happiness outside of ourselves. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. "

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

" If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. "

" What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! "

Elizabeth Bibesco

" Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. "

" In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. "

David A. Bednar

" I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress. "

" If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. "

Bertrand Russell

" Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. "

" The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. "

" We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. "