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" The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. "

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" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

" 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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" What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. "

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" My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. "

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" We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. "

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" The most simple things can bring the most happiness. "

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" Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. "

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