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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. "

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Humor

Grief

Sadness

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Believe

Man

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" The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. "

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Kind

Happiness

Smile

" The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. "

" The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. "

" You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. "

" Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. "

" Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. "

" Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. "

" If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "

" Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it. "

" For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "

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Spring

Security

Joy

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" Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness. "

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" For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. "

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Values

Happiness

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