The purpose of our lives is to be happy. - Dalai Lama

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that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks. ― Jim Fergus

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

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Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. _ Alan Cohen

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Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things. — Ann Brashares

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While I was yearning for happiness I became happy. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy! - Alejandro Jodorowsky

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If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy, choose happiness. Being happy automatically makes you a winner. – Karen Salmansohn

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ― Mary Renault

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