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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.