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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. ↗

— Red Skelton

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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ↗

— Red Skelton

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗

— August Strindberg

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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can. ↗

— Loretta Swit

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To me, the most important thing is happiness. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

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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

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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

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Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— John Mason Good

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The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

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