If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain. - Elizabeth McCracken

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If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.― Roy Bennett

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If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy

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You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. - Maude Adams

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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at his house at 211 King's Road, Chelsea, the garden of which he shared with Peter Ustinov. - Michael Korda

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I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.- David Muir

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. – Anne Frank

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I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god. - Christine McVie

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