#happin

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. ↗

— Horace

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ↗

— James Thomson

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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

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