I almost always urge people to write in the first person. … Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. - William Zinsser

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. - Christian Nestell Bovee

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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ― Saul Bellow

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ― Dalai Lama

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She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface ― Diane Chamberlain

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. — Barack Obama

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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. ― Bill Wilson

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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. ― Epictetus

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it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole. ― Rupi Kaur

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It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. —Babe Ruth

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