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Tracy Kidder

"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

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"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

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"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."

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"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."

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

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"I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting."

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"Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time."

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"These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency."

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"Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get."

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"I exhort you to be of good cheer."

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"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."
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"The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia."
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