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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #4
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz

  • #5
    Orson Scott Card
    “Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #6
    Ben Carson
    “Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”
    ― Ben Carson

  • #7
    Christopher McCandless
    “Happiness only real when shared.”
    ― Christopher McCandless

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    Brian L. Weiss
    “Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.”
    ― Brian Weiss

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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #11
    Gautama Buddha
    “These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:

    Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

    Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

    Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

    Status is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

    ...Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life...

    [Ittha Sutta, AN 5.43]”
    ― Buddha

  • #12
    Markus Zusak
    “Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #13
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins

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    E.L. Konigsburg
    “Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
    ― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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    Virginia Woolf
    “She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!”
    ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #17
    J. Cornell Michel
    “I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”
    ― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution