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" We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. "

Pierre Corneille

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" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "

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" Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress. "

" We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. "

" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

" Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! "

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

" People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. "

" When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. "

" Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness. "

" It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power. "

William Wilberforce

" That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. "

Francis Hutcheson

" In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. "

Pierre Corneille

" 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. "

" 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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" The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. "

" The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "

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" As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. "

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" One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. "

" If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth. "

" Happiness is the natural flower of duty. "

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" Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. "

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" Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. "

Pierre Corneille

" 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

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