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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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"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."

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"Take your million smiles through billion miles, life will never get boring for you even for a while."

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"Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is."

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"Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have."

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