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“God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.”— Red Skelton
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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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“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”— Don Marquis
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“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.”— Jimmy Carter
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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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“I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.”— Harlan Coben
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“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”— Marcel Proust
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“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”— Henry Drummond
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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“He who avoids complaint invites happiness.”— Abu Bakr
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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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“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”— Jonathan Edwards
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“Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.”— George A. Smith
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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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“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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“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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“I don't know the true meaning of happiness.”— Jonathan Davis
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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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“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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“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.”— Dennis Prager
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“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”— Bo Derek
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“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”— Freya Stark
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“Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.”— Gregg Easterbrook
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“But happiness is no respecter of persons.”— Stephen Fry
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“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”— Maurice Chevalier