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Ring Lardner - The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
Jet Li - I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
Margaret Mead - Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Robert Green Ingersoll - Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
John Dryden - Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Deepak Chopra - Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
C. S. Lewis - You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Baruch Spinoza - All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Richard Bach - Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Marquis de Sade - Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Thomas Jefferson - It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Richard Bach - The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Michael J. Fox - Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
David Ogden Stiers - Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - My family is my strength and my weakness.
George Carlin - The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Bernard Shaw - A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Charles Kuralt - The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Princess Diana - Family is the most important thing in the world.
Andre Maurois - Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Gilbert K. Chesterton - The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the man makes for himself and by himself.
Charles R. Swindoll - A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Willie Stargell - There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
Bertrand Russell - Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Ambrose Bierce - Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Baltasar Gracian - Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
Albert Schweitzer - Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
George Burns - 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.
Sam Levenson - Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Benjamin Spock - Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Walter Savage Landor - We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Ernest Dimnet - The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Malcolm Forbes - When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Helen Keller - Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Bette Davis - A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Agnes Repplier - It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Pearl S. Buck - Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Bertrand Russell - A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Albert Camus - But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Friedrich Schiller - Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Richard Bach - If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
F. H. Bradley - The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
William Ellery Channing - How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Leo Rosten - Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Helen Keller - True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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