“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
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“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.”
“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.”
“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: 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.”
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
“Love is trembling happiness.”
“If you want to be happy, be.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”
“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”