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I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.