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"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location."

"The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself, self-love."

"At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't."

"I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got."

"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."

"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
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