Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect._ Alain De Botton

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There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger. - Eric Bates

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. ― Mary Lou Retton

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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes._ Andrew Carnegie

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I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. — Serena Williams

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Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear. ― L.J. Smith

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Trouble knocked at the door, but hearing laughter, hurried away. – Benjamin Franklin

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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. ― Rumi

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ― Dolly Parton

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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