Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ― Jane Austen

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There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world. ― Hillary DePiano

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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. ― Aaron Cohen

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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