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Move on. Be well. Go for it! ↗

— Sally Stubbs

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Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn’t what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does. ↗

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart. ↗

— Amit Ray

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The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

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According to the normal view, happiness is the summum bonum towards which we're naturally impelled by virtue - which in their definition means following one's natural impulses, as God meant us to do. But this includes obeying the instinct to be reasonable in our likes and dislikes. And reason also teaches us, first to love and reverence Almighty God, to Whom we owe our existence and our potential happiness, and secondly to get through life as comfortably and cheerfully as we can , and help all other members of our species to do so too. ↗

— Thomas Moore

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Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things, fall in love with someone who does the right things. ↗

— Robert Tew

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Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life, and, on rare occasions, happiness. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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I particularly like that last phrase," Mom said. "About protecting your own happiness. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

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