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" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "

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" You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. "

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" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

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" Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. "

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" I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated. "

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