Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ― Jane Austen

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If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy, choose happiness. Being happy automatically makes you a winner. – Karen Salmansohn

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We grow through what we go through. — Tyrese Gibson

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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit. — Hosea Ballou

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she sees how happiness hides in the humdrum, how it abides in the everyday toing and froing as though happiness were a thing that should not be seen, as though it were a note that cannot be heard until it sounds from the past... ― Paul Lynch

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People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

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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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Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw

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