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“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
“How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if shed returned Richard's kiss on the corner of Bleeker and McDougal, gone off somewhere (where?) ...”
“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”
“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
“I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
“As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big glo...”
“That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....”
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.”
“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that...”
“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
“...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've t...”
“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
