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"Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past Butler Library. It was dark, but the light inside illuminated the windows. Students were reading and working, and those lit windows gave me a wonderful, weightless feeling. I understood for the first time how happy I had been there - in the library."
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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"The quietness of spirit is an inner peace."
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"Paint your life with the colors of kindness so that you may find the true bliss of happiness."
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"You ought to live life with great passion."
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"You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful."
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"The grace of joyful living gives strength to the bones."
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"The greatest grace is the sacred life of a fulfilled dream."
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"Three most important questions for a happy life:How can I help? How can I love? How can I belong?"
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"The best remedy in situation is calmness."
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"The righteous shall rejoice."
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"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."
Illness
"It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no."
Resilience
"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."
Memory
"In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later."
Perception
"Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover."
Ideology
"It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth."
Philosophy
"The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness."
Sports
"Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie."
Dreams
"A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other."
Literature
"I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something."
Desire
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