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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."

"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"We all want to be happy, right?"

"Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack."

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are."

"The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight."