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

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.