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" The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. "

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" I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. "

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

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

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" I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system. "

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" I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself. "

" 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. "

" Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. "

" One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. "

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" The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness. "

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" What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's. "

" 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. "

" Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted. "

" Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. "

" Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. "

" I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. "

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" When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply. "

" It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. "

" We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. "

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

" Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. "

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" Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. "

" The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. "

" Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. "

" The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

" The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. "

" Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. "

" Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. "

" I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. "

" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. "

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