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" Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. "
Don Marquis
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" The groundwork of all happiness is health. "
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" Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. "
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" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "
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" I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always. "
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" Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. "
Michael Novak
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" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "
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" Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality. "
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" As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. "
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