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" 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.' "

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

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" A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late. "

" Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. "

" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "

" I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it. "

" The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled. "

" Low expectations is the key to happiness in life. "

" 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. "

" We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. "

" There is no happiness outside of ourselves. "

" Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. "

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" Happiness is always a coincidence. "

" We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. "

" Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! "

" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "

" 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. "

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

" The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is. "

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

" Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. "

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

" Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! "

" Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. "

" There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being. "

" Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. "

" I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies. "

" America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. "