This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. ― W. Somerset Maugham

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

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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

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A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don’t ya think?

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Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy. ― Saji Ijiyemi

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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

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An unshared happiness is not happiness.

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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

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I thank God every day for this life, and I want there to be more, though that’s not known. What is known is that I’m alive today, this minute. And that’s pretty much what we all have – this day, this moment. ― Edie Littlefield Sundby

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