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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
Norodom Sihamoni on happiness

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther on happiness

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
David Mamet on happiness

The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Daisaku Ikeda on happiness

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli on happiness

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May on happiness

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather on happiness

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross on happiness

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
Hugh Laurie on happiness

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
Herman Hesse on happiness

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Franz Schubert on happiness

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
Mary Oliver on happiness

My life has run from misery to happiness.
Loretta Lynn on happiness

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
Robert Mapplethorpe on happiness

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell on happiness

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on happiness

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson on happiness

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Margaret Cho on happiness

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Sydney Smith on happiness

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Alexander Alekhine on happiness