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That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself.


Miriam Toews

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TOBIAS WOLFF Happiness is a habit,
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more than a disintegrating lozenge.
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Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
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PHILIPPA GREGORY The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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RICHARD BACH Happiness and joy always eludes a hypocrite.
SAM VEDA The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
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PAT CONROY Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
PEARL BUCK Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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