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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it… – Aristotle

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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. Shes happy, shes thriving, shes full of self-confidence. I tell her shes beautiful every day before I send her off to school. – Lynn Johnston

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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno

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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. – Martin Yan

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