Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made. - John Lewis

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I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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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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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it. - Albert Schweitzer

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Work can sometimes be very tricky. It gives with one hand and takes away with the other. It gives you money and takes away your time. It offers you wealth and steals your happiness. ― Mouloud Benzadi

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she sees how happiness hides in the humdrum, how it abides in the everyday toing and froing as though happiness were a thing that should not be seen, as though it were a note that cannot be heard until it sounds from the past... ― Paul Lynch

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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. ― Albert Camus

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The most simple things can bring the most happiness. - Izabella Scorupco

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I often surprise myself by saying, ‘Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.’ If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that too. — Harrison Ford

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