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ìFor each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day.

Irish Blessings

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

T H Huxley

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

G. K. Chesterton

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.

Mark Twain

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

Unknown

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys

Alphonse de Lamartine

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind

Marcel Proust

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean De La Bruyere

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse De Lamartine

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

Unknown

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

Storm Jameson

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Mary Stuart

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination

Mark Twain

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

Dale Carnegie

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Norman Lear

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

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