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" Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. "

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" I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things. "

" I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. "

" 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. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Ernest Hemingway

" I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest. "

" The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. "

" The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. "

" Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. "

Margaret Lee Runbeck

" I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus. "

" Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. "

" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "

" You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. "

" It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. "

Charles Spurgeon

" I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. "

Coretta Scott King

" Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. "

" 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. "

" If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. "

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

George Bernard Shaw

" The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift. "

" Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. "

" I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success. "

" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system. "

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

" Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "

Leonard Boswell

" The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. "

William Dean Howells

" The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

" Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. "

" Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. "