No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. _ Saint Augustine

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If you assign your happiness to external circumstances, you will never find the one thing we all deserve...joy in life. ― Andrew Pacholyk

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Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. _ Ralph Marston

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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. ― Betrand Russell

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ― Jane Austen

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Laughter is the language of the soul.

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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God. _ Blaise Pascal

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Happiness Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. —Joanne Harris

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