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You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

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The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. ↗

— Tana French

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Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough. ↗

— Junot Díaz

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A woman laughing is a woman conquered. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Suffering teaches joy. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later. ↗

— Esmeralda Santiago

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