A stumble may prevent a fall.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama

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You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin — Gordon B. Hinckley

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Let them be your friend because their love is liberating. Because they love your happiness as much as their own. Because their love is strong, but so light to hold. Love liberates. ― Darnell Lamont Walker

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Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. — Ann Brashares

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. _ Friedrich Koenig

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. —Rita Mae Brown

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness. ― Leon Tolstoy

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Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. ― Lionel Shriver

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