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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 the interval between periods of unhappiness.”— Don Marquis
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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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“True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.”— William J. H. Boetcker
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“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”— Marcel Proust
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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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“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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“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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“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”— Fiona Shaw
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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
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“It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.”— Miuccia Prada
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“To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.”— Christina Ricci
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“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.”— Maurice Sendak
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“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.”— William Law
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“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”— Polly Toynbee
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“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”— Iris Murdoch
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“I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.”— David Duchovny
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”— Jane Austen
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“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”— Thornton Wilder
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“Happiness is always a coincidence.”— Jose Bergamin
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“Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.”— Dennis Prager
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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”— Arthur Schopenhauer