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“Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz