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"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."

"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."

"Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like."

"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."

"Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security."
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"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?"

"When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything."

"What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians."
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