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"Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home."

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

"If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich."

"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."

"Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!"

"Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you."

"The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility."
Explore more quotes by Doris Lessing

"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."

"I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married."

"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."

"She was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing to her interminable. If life had to be looked at in terms of high moments. or peaks, then nothing had 'happened' to her for a long time; snd she could look forward to nothing much but a dwindling away from full household activity into getting old."

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

"Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot."
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