“Notice who beams at your happiness and sits with you in your sadness.”

—  Stephie Pahlavi Zan

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“You are like a star who's twinkling all the time at the night. When you light up yourself it show your happiness and when you're not it's look like you're sad. It's depends on you want to want be in your life glowing star who's spread happiness or dim star who's spread sadness. If i were a star I'll spreads happiness all around and when someone had a wish to me I'll fall down for their wish come true.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

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“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

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“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

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“Show your happiness to those who cannot stand you. Your happiness, will destroy them.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Mostra la tua felicità a coloro che non ti sopportano. La tua felicità, li distruggerà.
Source: prevale.net

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“Be you wise and never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you--
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You'll be the first it ever did.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

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“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”

Anne Michaels (1958) Poet and novelist

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“You’re the secret to change your life, you’re the key to your own happiness. It's not the happy people who are thankful, it’s the thankful people who are happy.”

Gaur Gopal Das (1973) Indian spiritual leader, lifestyle coach and motivational speaker

[Power to choose is much bigger than the challenges one faces,says Gaur Gopal Das, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/power-to-choose-is-much-bigger-than-the-challenges-one-faces-says-gaur-gopal-das/articleshow/65516324.cms, Times of India, 23 August 2018]

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“My plea to you is this: despite your sadness, do not forget how happy you have made me; do not forget that I loved a man who loved me in return, and this was the greatest gift I could ever hope to receive.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Ruth Levinson, Chapter 28 Ira, p. 328-329
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“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

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