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- Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies
- The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony
- A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Dr. Howard Murphy
- Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
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