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Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse.
In dependence, there is no happiness, even in a dream.
Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.
Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go "Oh, man — is that happy guy still out there?
Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.
The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.
Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.
Sri Chinmoy Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,—all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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