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" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "

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" It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. "

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" Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. "

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