How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don't let people tell you it cant be done 6 make no excuses ― Germany Kent

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All morning it has been raining. In the language of the garden, this is happiness. ― Mary Oliver

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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated. ― Audrey Niffenegger

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ― Henry David Thoreau

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. ― Bertrand Russell

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There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world. ― Hillary DePiano

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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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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole. ― John Irving

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Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy. ― Jane Austen, Emma

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