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"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."
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"The reward of life is Joy."

"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."

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

"Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

"Smile puts a smile on all the good things in the world."

"Without prosperity the fullness of human happiness is not possible."

"The primary thing that people are going to try to take away from you- is the purity of your happiness. Rare is it to find in someone a pure happiness. A happiness so innocent, so spontaneous and so raw... it is the way we are born but it is most often not the way that we die. The world comes in and tries to take that away from you. People come in and try to take that away from you. I have learned not to jump into the pigsty with them. You have to protect the purity of your happiness and the innocence of your joy. People WILL try to take it away. Don't go there, don't let them. Keep what is yours."

"Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn't determine whether the book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn't really matter if they end up happy together."
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"But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again."

"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."

"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."

"At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual."

"In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming."

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck."

"And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process."
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