Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect._ Alain De Botton

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an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow. ― Merlin Franco

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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

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You can start creating your own happiness today, and everyday! ― David Paul Vosburg

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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ― Dale Carnegie

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Happiness is the best makeup. — Drew Barrymore

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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun. ― Robert Rauschenberg

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

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. ― Tom Bodett

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