Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

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You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them. ― Francesca Marciano

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George W. Bush doesn't care about black people. ― Kanye West

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Happiness is a quality of the soul not a function of one's material circumstances. ― Aristotle

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Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

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Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment. ― Amit Kalantri

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People say that money isn’t the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. — Joan Rivers

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. — Epictetus

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The older you get the better you get… unless you’re a banana. – Betty White

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I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me. ― Kendal Rob

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