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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.