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" What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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" 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. "

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" When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. "

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" The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. "

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

" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

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" We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men. "

" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

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" There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness. "

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" Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "

" Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. "

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

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" One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. "

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" I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life. I try not to take anything too seriously. I try to - and I do - find a ton of joy and happiness in my life, and I think that helps you stay youthful. "

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