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Happiness

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. – Salvador Dali

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V.S. Pritchett

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. – Walter Savage Landor

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. – Doug Larson

Be happy, and a reason will come along. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The Declaration of Independence only holds as a truth of the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Author unknown

Some pursue happiness, others create it. – Author Unknown

You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it. – Henepola Gunaratana (Bhante G)

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. – Andrew Delbanco

Happiness is breathlessly chasing you. – Terri Guillemets

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. – Johann Pestalozzi

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. – Bertrand Russell

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larson

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. – H.W. Byles