The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. —Ashley Montagu

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It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own. ― Louis Zukofsky

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. ― Bertrand Russell

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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. ― Epicurus

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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated. ― Audrey Niffenegger

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I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere. ― Andy Rooney

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If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately. ― chloe neill, Biting Bad

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If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’ If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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True happiness is found inside the heart. — Anurag Prakash Ray

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