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" Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. "
Iris Murdoch
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" Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. "
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" When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. "
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" If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. "
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" Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "
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" You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety. "
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" To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole. "
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" Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. "
Blaise Pascal
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" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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" If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. "
Bertrand Russell
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" In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? "
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" God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army. "
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" Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. "
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" I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it. "
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" It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you. "
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" If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations. "
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" I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. "
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" Independence is happiness. "
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" Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too. "
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" A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. "
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