Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

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Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. ― Santosh Kalwar

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy. ― Kristen Crockett

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it. ― Sebastian Faulks

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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. - Albert Schweitzer

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How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ― Jane Austen

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