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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

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

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.”

“Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.”

“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.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”

“Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never forget that only God can give us the power to love each other and to respect each other and to share life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

“You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.”

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

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

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

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

“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”

“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

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

“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.”

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”