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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

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. – Johnny Carson

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J.D. Salinger

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. – C.P. Snow

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Author Unknown

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness