Gilbert K. Chesterton - The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the man makes for himself and by himself.
George Bernard Shaw - A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Michael J. Fox - Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Baruch Spinoza - All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Albert Schweitzer - Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Percy Ross - You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Alphonse Karr - Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Bob Ehrlich - Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
George Carlin - The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
Richard Bach - The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
C. S. Lewis - You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
Ernie Banks - You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Andre Maurois - Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Robert Frost - The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Thomas Jefferson - It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Deepak Chopra - Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Baltasar Gracian - Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Helen Keller - True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Friedrich Schiller - Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Princess Diana - Family is the most important thing in the world.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - My family is my strength and my weakness.
Pope John XXIII - The family is the first essential cell of human society.
John Dryden - Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Ambrose Bierce - Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Leo Rosten - Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Albert Camus - But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Lee Iacocca - The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Barbara Bush - To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Marquis de Sade - Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Robert Green Ingersoll - Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Bertrand Russell - Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
William Ellery Channing - How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Andrei Platonov - Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Charles Kuralt - The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
David Ogden Stiers - Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
George Burns - Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
Euripides - Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
F. H. Bradley - The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Anatole France - Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel - A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Walt Disney - A man should never neglect his family for business.
Richard Bach - Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Booth Tarkington - So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Richard Bach - If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Chuck Palahniuk - The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
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