She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy. ― Jane Austen, Emma

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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last. ― Frank O'Hara

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Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. ― Mike Patton

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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ― Dalai Lama

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Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

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The only thing I'll never have is what I have lost for ever and ever... As long as I live, until I draw my last breath, I shall remember Asel and all those beautiful things that were ours. The day I was to leave I went to the lake and stood on the rise above it. I was saying good-bye to the Tien Shan mountains, to Issyk-Kul. Good-bye, Issyk-Kul, my unfinished song! How I wish I could take you with me, your blue waters and your yellow shores, but I can't, just as I can't take the woman I love with me. Goodbye, Asel. Good-bye, my pretty poplar in a red kerchief! Good-bye, my love, I want you to be happy.

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No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones. — Nelson Mandela

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Being happy never goes out of style. — Lilly Pulitzer

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