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"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."
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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."

"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."

"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!"

"You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!"

"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."

"It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression."
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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."

"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

"I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell."
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