We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. _ Friedrich Koenig

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ― Marcus Aurelius

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. _Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. ― Nicholas Sparks

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. _ Dale Carnegie

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ― George Bernard Shaw

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People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ― Ernest Hemingway

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Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. ― Henry Miller

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