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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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"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."

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

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."

"The reward of life is Joy."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"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."

"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

"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."
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