It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because you can start over. ― Ria Tumimomor

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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. ― Cyrus the Great

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Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world. ― Misha Collins

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect._ Alain De Botton

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

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Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) ― Peter S. Beagle

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Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. ― Arnold Schwarzenegger

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