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To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Erase from your vocabulary the word “someday.” Do not save things for “special occasions.” Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses … just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

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But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

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Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we wanted. pg 155 ↗

— John Kuypers

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Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present. ↗

— John Kuypers

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