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Quote by Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Zhuangzi

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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. – Arthur Ashe

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