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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.