the point of losing something precious - be it happiness of material wealth - can be forgotten over time. but our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. because without the thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy. ― Anne Frank

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ― Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. — Zig Ziglar

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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. — Ashley Montagu

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The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any. ― Orhan Pamuk

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