Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. — Vernon Sanders Law

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.- Henry David Thoreau

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. ― Anthony Trollope

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ― Hugh Downs

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Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. ― Mike Rowe

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. ― Bertrand Russell

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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. ― Booker T. Washington

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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