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"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

"Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."

"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."
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