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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She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.Sunflower, by Gyula Krúdy
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One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.Henry David Thoreau
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Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
Yehuda Amichai
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I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.Andrew Sullivan, This I Believe
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Ever since happiness has heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.Hafiz
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But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.Haruki Murakami (Norweigan Wood)
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