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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

—William Ellery Channing

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Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness sure is a hell of a lot easier to find when you're not worried about where your next meal is coming from.

—Christina Lauren

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Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.

—Douglas Coupland

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What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn't want to leave? What then? But wouldn't it be great if I loved it? Isn't that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness?

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

—Rita Mae Brown

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Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Island

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Getting what you want doesn't make you happy. Having doesn't make you happy: appreciating does. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.

—Katherine Center in Happiness for Beginners

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

—Bertrand Russell

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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

—Colette

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Once I wanted total happiness – now I will settle for a little less pain.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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The traveler, alas, is at the mercy of his aesthetic sensations. A fine evening, a seat under a plant tree, the smile of a peasant girl, the scent of orange flower, a view over mountains or river—and he feels at home. His country is not the land where his friends live, but the wider territory of beautiful things—the territory where, if one agrees with Stendhal, he collects those promissory notes of happiness which give a precious fraction of their value when they are pocketed. He is therefore continually subject to accidents. An ugly town, a rainy day, and unsympathetic hotel, and he is at once a double exile—equally far from his native land and from that ideal country which he has set out to visit. The only recourse left is a bottle of wine.

—Gerald Brenan in Face of Spain

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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

—Adyashanti

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

—Roy M. Goodman

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