Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it. ― Sebastian Faulks

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

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We can activate tremendous powers within our own lives if we open up to the experience. ― Ari Gunzburg

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But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy. ― Stefan Zweig

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Life is in ourselves and not in the external. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ― Max Planck

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Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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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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