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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
Johann G. Fichte
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
Guy Laliberte
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs
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
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
Pierre Dukan
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
James Freeman Clarke
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Monica Edwards
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Thomas Aquinas
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
W. H. Sheldon
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
Edward Frederic Benson
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William John Bennett
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller
He is rich who owes nothing.
Proverb