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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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“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”— Don Marquis
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“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”— Jeremy Bentham
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“Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!”— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”— Helen Gurley Brown
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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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“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”— Marcel Proust
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“Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.”— Julia Roberts
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“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”— Adam Smith
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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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
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“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.”— Hermann Hesse
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“Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.”— Billy Wilder
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“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.”— Ogden Nash
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“If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.”— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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“Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.”— Zoe Saldana
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“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.”— Gary Larson
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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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“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?”— Joni Mitchell
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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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“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”— Milan Kundera
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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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“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”— Bo Derek
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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
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“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”— David Sarnoff