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• Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

  William Burroughs

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• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

  William Beveridge

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• Happiness is an inside job.

   

  William Arthur Ward

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• Worldly wealth is the Devil’s bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

  Robert Burton

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• Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

  Austin O'Malley

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• Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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• And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

  Adam Weishaupt

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• A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

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  A man asked Buddha “I want happiness.” Lord Buddha said first remove ‘I’ that’s ego. Then remove ‘Want’ that’s desire. See now you are left with only “Happiness”.

  Gautama Buddha

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• I think it’s a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it’s better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

  Wendy Cope

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• Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

  Emil Cioran

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• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  Adam Clarke

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• So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who’s drunk come up and tell you you’re great.

  Rick Derringer

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• Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

  Azar Nafisi

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• Happiness is no laughing matter.

  Richard Whately

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• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.

  Carrie P. Snow

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  Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

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• We’ve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that’s easier. It’s much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

  Emma Thompson

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• The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

  Epictetus

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