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" When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. "

Anna Pavlova

Butterfly

Happiness

Success

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" Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. "

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" Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. "

" When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. "

" And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. "

" The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky. "

" For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. "

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Happiness

" 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. "

" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "

" Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness. "

" There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. "

" The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kind

Happiness

Smile

" Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. "

" Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it. "

" The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. "

" No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. "

" That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. "

" Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. "

" Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident. "

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

" Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness. "

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Happiness

People

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

" I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples. "

" In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. "

" Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality. "