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" The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque. "

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" 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

" The right to happiness is fundamental. "

" I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party - just when you're full of life. "

" The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. "

" I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. "

Martin Seligman

" To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' "

Viktor E. Frankl

" Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. "

" Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. "

" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "

Ernest Hemingway

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive. "

" I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. "

" 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. "

" Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others. "

" The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down. "

" Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. "

Bertrand Russell

" Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness. "

" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "

" I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. "

John Paul Jones

" Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. "

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

" When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. "

" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. "

" A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. "

" Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. "

" America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically. "

" I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look. "

Christie Brinkley