Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within ― Helen Keller

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When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. - Arthur Smith

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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. ― Alain de Botton

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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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I think happiness is what makes you pretty. _ Drew Barrymore

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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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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. ― Orson Scott Card

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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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After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven? ― E.M. Forster, Maurice

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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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