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" The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. "

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" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

Michael Douglas

" I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy. "

" For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. "

Thomas Bulfinch

" Happiness is a direction, not a place. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. "

" Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. "

" Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness. "

" My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to. "

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

J. B. Priestley

" No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup. "

" Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality. "

" Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. "

Alexandre Dumas

" Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. "

" Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.' "

Gabrielle Bernstein

" 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. "

" Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. "

" I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body. "

Gabrielle Bernstein

" To forget oneself is to be happy. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" 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.' "

" Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. "

Alphonse de Lamartine

" The right to happiness is fundamental. "

" So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. "

Booth Tarkington

" Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. "

" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "

" I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it. "

" People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful. "

" I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. "

" A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. "

" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "

" The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success. "