what famous people say about happiness (quotes)

"My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart."
- Shawn Johnson

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"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."
- Lydia M. Child

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"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."
- Samuel Johnson

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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."
- Ogden Nash

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"I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness."
- Elizabeth George

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"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."
- Julia Ward Howe

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"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
- Storm Jameson

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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. "
- Henry Ford

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