Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. ― Milan Kundera

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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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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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

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Stand a little less between me and the sun. -Diogenes

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. ― Charles Dickens

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Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life. ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

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