The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

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the point of losing something precious - be it happiness of material wealth - can be forgotten over time. but our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. because without the thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.

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We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it is has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently. ("Happy days are back again") ― Erik Pevernagie

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Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. ― Karen Maezen Miller

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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. ― Epicurus

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. — Mahatma Gandhi

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Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy. - Adam Sandler

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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