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“They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.”

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.”

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”

“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”