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Alexander McCall Smith

we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is.

“But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?”

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William Hazlitt

Well, I’ve had a happy life.

Well, I’ve had a happy life.

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Bryant McGill

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

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Abraham Lincoln

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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Shadowlands

The pain now is part of the happiness then.

C.S. Lewis: Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers any more. Only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I’ve been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.

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Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.