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The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
– Marguerite Duras
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
– Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
– Elbert Hubbard
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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.
– Chanakya
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
– Walter Annenberg
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
– Madame de Stael
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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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.
– Omar Bongo
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The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
– Bryant McGill
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
– Karl Marx
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The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.
– Kay Hagan
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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
– Sidney Sheldon
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The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
– Jesse Ventura
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
– William Godwin
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
– Quentin Crisp
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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
– Heinrich Mann
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The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
– Richard Eyre
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The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
– Seal
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
– Irving Babbitt
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
– Joseph Addison
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
– Albert Schweitzer
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Success can create more madness than happiness.
– Billy Ocean
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
– Charles Van Doren
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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
– John Grierson
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Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
– Dita Von Teese
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So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
– Rick Derringer
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
– Olivia Wilde
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So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
– DJ Jazzy Jeff
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So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
– Duncan Sheik
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So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
– Arthur Hiller
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.
– Chris Webber
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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
– Giraldus Cambrensis
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
– Irving Babbitt
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Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
– Louise Hart
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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
– Tryon Edwards
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Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
– Glen Hansard
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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
– Samuel Chase
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
– Wayne Gretzky
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
– Stendhal
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People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
– Hugh Laurie
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People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
– Joan Rivers
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
– Chuck Norris
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People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
– Lucinda Williams
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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
– Red Skelton
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
– Plato
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Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Leonard Boswell
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
– Maria Montessori
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One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
– Sean Hannity
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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
– Gustave Flaubert
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On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
– Chandler Massey
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Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
– Herbert Spencer
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
– Adam Clarke
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
– Samuel Johnson
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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
– Charles Sumner
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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
– Horatio Alger
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No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
– Glenn Beck
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
– Helen Keller
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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
– Graham Greene
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
– Herman Hesse
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Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
– Godfrey Reggio
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My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.
– Katy Perry
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My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
– Shawn Johnson
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My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.
– Emmylou Harris
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
– Gail Porter
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
– Dave Grohl
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
– Loretta Lynn
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My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
– Nicki Minaj
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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
– Michael J. Fox
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My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.
– Lucy Alibar
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My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
– Evangeline Lilly
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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
– Kitty Kelley
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
– Arthur Rubinstein
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Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
– Freddie Mercury
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Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
– Eric Ripert
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Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
– Neil Simon
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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
– Spike Milligan
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Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.
– Jermaine Jackson
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
– John Leguizamo
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Love is trembling happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
– Michael Novak
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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.
– Red Skelton
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
– Sydney Smith
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Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.
– Kareena Kapoor
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
– George Sand
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