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Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to.
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Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to.
Happiness is maybe another thing, but what it's passed me right there under my eyes, these years, I would never change with anything.
When I was five years old, my mother would tell me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote "happy". They told me that I hadn't understood the question, and I told them that they hadn't understood life.
In front of a perpective of permanent and unvaried happiness don't we all stand back, for the terror of dying of boredom?
Happiness, sudden vertigo, optical illusion, chance to take, park it without emergency lights or triangle, all sleep already and the traffic light has gone off. Yesterday it was you, today I'm the next, how long will it last, I ask others but I think some invisible thread has gone, not but the scenery remains.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, "Wait and hope".
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
There is one inborn mistake, and it is believing that we exist to be happy.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.