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“Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.”
“I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree ...”
“Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.”
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
“You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.”
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”
“To forget oneself is to be happy.”
“I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am...”
“While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we...”
“Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?”
“Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.”
“Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.”
“A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.”
“There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow....”
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”
“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”
“I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.”
“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.”
