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Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guilaume Apollinaire

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. – Sophocles

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton

Some pursue happiness, others create it. – Author Unknown

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

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. – Author Unknown

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. – Antoine de Saint – Exupéry, The Little Prince