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"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
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"Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home."

"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."

"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

"Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time."

"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."

"It is wealth to be content."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."

"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."

"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse."

"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"

"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."
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