It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve. ― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life. — J.K. Rowling

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. _ Jane Austen

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. ― Victor Hugo

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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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I have what I have. And I am happy. I have lost what I’ve lost. And I am still happy. – Rupi Kaur

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. – James M. Barrie

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