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“Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.”— Doug Coupland
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“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”— Doug Larson
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“Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.”— James Allen
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“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”— Don Marquis
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“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.”— Theodor Adorno
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“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.”— Kanye West
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“Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.”— Shahrukh Khan
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“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”— Marcel Proust
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“Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”— Jim Ryun
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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“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.”— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.”— Bernard Meltzer
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“Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.”— Douglas Horton
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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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“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”— Emile M. Cioran
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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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“Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.”— Colin Hay
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“I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”— Arthur Rimbaud
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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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“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.”— John Stuart Mill
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“Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.”— Dionne Warwick
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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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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”— William Cowper
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“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”— Bo Derek