“Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
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“I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.”
— Alain Delon
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“How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.”
— Paul Sweeney
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“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.”
— Giacomo Casanova
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“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.”
— George Mason
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“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
— Jeremy Bentham
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“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
— Tracy Kidder
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“I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.”
— Alfred Day Hershey
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“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.”
— Chanakya
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“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.”
— Polly Toynbee
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“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.”
— Josh Billings
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