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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.