It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

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hi I hope u want to be my friends ― Judy Blume

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Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. ― Santosh Kalwar

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When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out. —Eleanor Roosevelt

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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ― J.R.R. Tolkien

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — Steven Kloves

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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. - Kevyn Aucoin

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