I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Happiness earned, not given. ― Toba Beta

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Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. _ Alan Cohen

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Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion. ― Allan Lokos

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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.- Henry David Thoreau

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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 in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ― Ernest Hemingway

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It’s not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. – Charles Spurgeon

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While I was yearning for happiness I became happy. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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