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"... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again."
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"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this."
"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."
"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
"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."
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"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees."
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
"Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians."
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