“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project
“Look for happiness under your own roof.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project
“That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.”
― A Long Way Down
― A Long Way Down
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