Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. ― Lionel Shriver

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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ― Jonathan Safran Foer

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. - Hermann Hesse

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Happiness is not by chance but by choice. — Jim Rohn

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True happiness is found inside the heart. — Anurag Prakash Ray

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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. - Golda Meir

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All morning it has been raining. In the language of the garden, this is happiness. ― Mary Oliver

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. ― G.K. Chesterton

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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. —Ashley Montagu

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