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

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To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more. ― Mandy Hale

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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last. ― Frank O'Hara

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. - John Harrigan

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. -C. S. Lewis

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I often surprise myself by saying, ‘Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.’ If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that too. — Harrison Ford

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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you. ― Aeschylus

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. —Rita Mae Brown

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. _ George A. Sheehan

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