The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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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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Happiness was born a twin.

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. _ Saint Augustine

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Happiness is a warm puppy. ― Charles M. Schulz

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness. ― Leon Tolstoy

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — Steve Kloves, screenwriter

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Happiness is a nothingness without completeness. ― Hlovate

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Happiness Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. —Joanne Harris

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Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. ― Lionel Shriver

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