I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ― Thomas Edison

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke

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I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. ― Heather Anastasiu

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Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away! ― Tom Giaquinto

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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

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Happiness is a condition you experience not an experience you consume. ― David Amerland

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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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