Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. ― Mary Shelley

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus

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He felt every day more and more certain that she, and she alone, could make him happy. ― Elizabeth Gaskell

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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. ― Emma Donoghue

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Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for. ― Pravin Agarwal

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ― Douglas Jerrold

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. ― Oscar Wilde

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You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy. — Alan Cohen

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I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light. ― Katherine Center

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