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"Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It won't come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap." -- William Bennett "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -- Robert Anthony "Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it." -- Aristotle "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." -- Buddha "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -- Benjamin Disraeli "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence - definition of 'happiness'" -- John F. Kennedy "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 "Happiness consists in being happy with what we have got and with what we haven't got." -- Charles H. Spurgeon "There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life." -- Arthur Schopenhauer "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." -- George Washington "Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have." -- Spencer Johnson "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." -- Burton Hills "Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are." -- John B. Sheerin "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels." -- Bertolt Brecht "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?" -- Adam Smit "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." -- Agnes Repplier "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." -- Leo C. Rosten "Strive to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To be too wise for worry, too tolerant for hate, and too courageous to be fearful. In short, to be happy." -- Anonymous "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -- Helen Keller "Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us." -- Charlotte Bronte "Who doesn't find the happiness in himself, it is useless to seek it in another place." -- François de la Rochefoucauld "If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy." -- Anthony de Mello