It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. ― Bertrand Russell

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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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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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? ― Joyce Carol Oates

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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. ― Betrand Russell

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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris

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There is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. ― Eric Weiner

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People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ― Ernest Hemingway

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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