I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. ― Haruki Murakami

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.- Oscar Wilde

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. – Friedrich Schiller

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Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it. _ Albert Schweitzer

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel._ Maya Angelou

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ― George Bernard Shaw

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

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