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" To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. "

Stefan Sagmeister

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" You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. "

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" Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. "

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" Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. "

" You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. "

" My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world. "

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" Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. "

" Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something. "

" Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. "

" Happiness can exist only in acceptance. "

" Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. "

" Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. "

" Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. "

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" When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. "

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" There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy. "

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" Happiness is a direction, not a place. "

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" Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy. "

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" To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. "

" There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. "

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

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" Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. "

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" The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. "

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" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "

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" For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. "

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

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" Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. "

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