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"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
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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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"Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can."
"If wild my breast and sore my pride,I bask in dreams of suicide,If cool my heart and high my headI think 'How lucky are the dead."
"It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'"
"I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking."
"If I didn't care for fun and such,I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn."
"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."
"This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
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