Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — Steven Kloves

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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. _ Leo Buscaglia

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Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. ― John Chrysostom

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

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There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world. ― Hillary DePiano

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If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness. ― A. Bondoux

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