It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys—of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain. ― Peter Heller, Celine

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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. ― Maurice Chevalier

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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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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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Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. ― Santosh Kalwar

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You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

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Do we need to wait until the next life to experience true happiness? Of course not; we can experience it now. By making that choice to be happy and optimistic, we can have a little bit of Heaven on Earth. ― Lindsey Rietzsch

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I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness. We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values and our own interests. — Gretchen Rubin

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. _ George A. Sheehan

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