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" The secret of happiness is something to do. "
John Burroughs
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" The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence. "
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" Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.' "
Gretchen Rubin
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" A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late. "
Frank Sinatra
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" The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! "
John Burroughs
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" No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. "
Helen Keller
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" Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. "
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" When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have. "
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" There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. "
John Burroughs
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" Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? "
C. S. Lewis
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" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "
Dale Carnegie
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" Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. "
Thomas Jefferson
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" Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it. "
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" A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. "
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" Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. "
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" Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' "
Les Dawson
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" To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. "
John Burroughs
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" He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. "
John Burroughs
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" Independence is happiness. "
Susan B. Anthony
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" My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. "
Horatio Nelson
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" 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. "
Jim Ryun
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" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "
Ayn Rand
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" No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. "
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" There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. "
Ogden Nash
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" Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. "
Marie Osmond
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" Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. "
Richard Bach
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Right
" I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. "
Bertrand Russell
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" I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. "
Audrey Hepburn
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" If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. "
Leon Kass
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" Happiness is a direction, not a place. "
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" You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. "
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