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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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. —Jaques Prevert

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

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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. ― Cyrus the Great

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Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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