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

About C. P. Snow

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Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers...

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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

—Alice Caldwell Rice

Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water.

—Gretchen Rubin in Happier at Home

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

—George Burns

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I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Wintergirls

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