I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it. ― Sebastian Faulks

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ―Helen Keller

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ― Alexandre Dumas

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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ― bell hooks

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I believe in the sun, even when it rains.

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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. ― mary baker eddy

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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. ― Eric Weiner

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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ― Chuck Palahniuk

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