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Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day. ↗

— Peter Høeg

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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

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Happiness is the most tired word in any language. ↗

— Erol Ozan

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I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness? ↗

— Isaac Marion

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If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness. ↗