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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness! -- Jackie Kennedy
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. -- John F. Kennedy
This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity. -- Tabitha Suzuma
My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to. -- Mary Kay Ash
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world. -- Julian Gough
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness. -- John F. Kennedy
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree. -- Jackie Kennedy
If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. -- Herman Koch
I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless. -- Pico Iyer
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. -- Audrey Hepburn
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors. -- Tony Hsieh
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where. -- Laurence Sterne

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