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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it is a good job that will continue.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

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

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

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

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

My family did not have a lot of money, and I am grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

I always had a larger view. I am interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

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.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Being rich and famous is not all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.