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"Happiness is the default state. It's what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life."

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."

"Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so."

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

"Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy."

"Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration."

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."

"Being happy is something that each of us determines, it is not something that we find outside of ourself, it is within us and our choice."