The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis

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Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. — Steve Maraboli

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If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’ If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

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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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Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life? — Audrey Niffenegger

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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? ― Joyce Carol Oates

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Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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