Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within ― Helen Keller

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

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As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

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Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

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When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

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There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.

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Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

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The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I? ― Bob Marley

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