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• Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  People, Glory, Achieve

  "A Hero of Our Time". Book by Mikhail Lermontov, 1841.

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• Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

  Willa Cather

  People, Deals

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

  Rachel Kadish

  Thinking, Two, People

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.325, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happy people don't run a 3:47 mile.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, People, Miles

  "Mexico wins at World Cup! Does that mean the 'no sex' thing is working?" by Brian Alexander, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

  Marisha Pessl

  Powerful, Sunshine, People

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• The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, People, Bored

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• Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Make Me Happy, I Can

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• When you smile and project an aura of warmth, kindness, and friendliness, you will attract warms, kindness, and friendliness. Happy people will be drawn to you.

  Joel Osteen

  Smile, Kindness, People

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• There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone.

  Anna Paquin

  Real, Play, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Broken Heart, Hate, Conquer The World

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

  Lin Yutang

  People, Unhappy, World

  Yutang Lin (1950). “On the Wisdom of America”

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• One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Drama, People, Peaceful

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• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

  Black Elk

  Strong, Native American, Circles

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

  Ray Stedman

  Lonely, Selfish, People

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.107, Discovery House

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• I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

  Shirley Manson

  People, Mental Health, Unbalanced

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

  Denis Waitley

  Sweet, Children, Struggle

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• If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Powerful, Unhappy Person

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.62, Penguin

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• To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Fun, Civilization, People

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• True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

  Rita Ora

  Believe, Fighting, Knowing Who You Are

  "Rita Ora Gives GLAM4GOOD Her Definition of Beauty, and Tells What She Wears for Good Luck" by Mary Alice Stephenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2014.

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• When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.

  John Frusciante

  People, Feelings, I Smile

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• I didn't fit into the Christian college my parents sent me to. I felt tarnished by tragedy, between my brother's death and Escuela Caribe, and everyone else seemed so carefree and happy and praising God. I couldn't stand happy people for a long time, and was plagued by chronic migraines and stomach aches. I'd say between age thirteen and twenty-three was the most miserable time of my life. I wrote Jesus Land because I wanted there to be a record of David's life. I was surprised that so many people read it, and felt moved by it.

  Julia Scheeres

  Christian, Jesus, College

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Beach, Party, Golf

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• Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Marc Maron - Bipolar Coaster". "Comedy Central Presents", Season 11, Episode 1, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to do and find a way to do that as an adult for their jobs. A lot of people have jobs they don't like, and it makes for very unhappy people. So I tell them if you like to write, or run around, or dig in the dirt, then find a job that will allow you to do that, and you'll be happy.

  Kadir Nelson

  Running, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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