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"I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it."
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"It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you fail to nurture your spirit, by absorbing all things good and giving attention to the matters of your heart, it will be hard to obtain. It must radiate from inside of you. Then, flow outwardly penetrating everyone around you."
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"Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness."
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"Think of what makes you smile, makes you happy... and do more of that shit."
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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
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"Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn't find such a path yet!"
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"You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!"
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"Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain."
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"You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character."
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"The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it."
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"True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself."
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"People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."
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"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."
Reflection

"He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing."
Emotion

"Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else."
Identity

"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."
Philosophy

"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."
Nature

"I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing."
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"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."
Nature

"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."
Life

"He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea."
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