I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.Clarissa Vaughan, The Hours
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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.Mark Twain
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Ever since happiness has heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.Hafiz (via emotional-algebra)
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The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.Philip DeFranco
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I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but I am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.Anne Giardini
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Let’s order too much of something just to see where our limits are. Let’s take a chance precisely because it might fail. Let’s take the hard way out. Let’s go to the moon. Fuck it; let’s go to the moon again. Let’s quit our jobs. Let’s work at being better at what we do by fucking up faster, not less. Let’s fuck up really fast. Let’s wrestle sharks, fight monsters, and disagree with the board. Let’s borrow so much money it becomes someone else’s problem. Let’s start a 10-hour drive by announcing “I’m not into you anymore.” Let’s dump everything out of the garage onto the sidewalk and build something really cool in that space. Let’s start out to build a better mousetrap, and halfway there let’s decide to jump on the mice’s team.Mike Monteiro
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Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.Albert Schweitzer
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.Anais Nin
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