Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? ― Markus Zusak

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There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.

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I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

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Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

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Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

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...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep... ― John Geddes

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Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. ― John O'Callaghan

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Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? ― Kurt Cobain

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin

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