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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness, sanity
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    W.P. Kinsella
    “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
    ― W.P. Kinsella
    tags: happiness, success
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
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  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Ann Brashares
    “Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”
    ― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    tags: bailey, happiness, loser, sisterhood
    1520 likes

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  • #7
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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  • #8
    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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  • #9
    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: beauty, everything, seeing
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  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks
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  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39249 likes

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  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #18
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
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  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
    "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: ache, death, dumbledore, harry-potter, hurt, life, pain
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: life
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  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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  • #24
    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
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  • #25
    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    ― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
    tags: life, opportunity
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  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #27
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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  • #29
    John Keats
    “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
    ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
    tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three
    2286 likes

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  • #30
    John Keats
    “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
    ― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
    tags: beauty, happiness, joy
    1013 likes



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