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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
Every house takes its light from the happiness inside the house! No happiness, no light!
Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.
When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.
It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.