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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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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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"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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