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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. – Ethel Percy Andrus

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. – George Santayana

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