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Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life. ↗

— Emily Procter

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. ↗

— Andy Rooney

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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ↗

— Alice Meynell

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ↗

— William Morris

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