We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ― David Levithan

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Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

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Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love. ― Osho

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Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. ― Aristotle

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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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Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. – Jim Rohn

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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. ― Mary Shelley

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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure ― Aristotle

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. — Joseph Addison

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