If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. - Christian Nestell Bovee

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The only thing I'll never have is what I have lost for ever and ever... As long as I live, until I draw my last breath, I shall remember Asel and all those beautiful things that were ours. The day I was to leave I went to the lake and stood on the rise above it. I was saying good-bye to the Tien Shan mountains, to Issyk-Kul. Good-bye, Issyk-Kul, my unfinished song! How I wish I could take you with me, your blue waters and your yellow shores, but I can't, just as I can't take the woman I love with me. Goodbye, Asel. Good-bye, my pretty poplar in a red kerchief! Good-bye, my love, I want you to be happy.

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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — The Dalai Lama

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Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? ― Kurt Cobain

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And I don't have a corner sofa or a sweater-wearing husband. But I am here. The Noelle of right now, is right here. ― Lia Louis

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If you want to be happy, be. — Leo Tolstoy

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