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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I think happiness is love.