“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
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“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
The quote "We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain." is famous quote by Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), American writer.
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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