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  • Candace Bushnell Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • John Henry Newman Growth is the only evidence of life.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • John Irving Half my life is an act of revision.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Will Rogers Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Augustus William Hare Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Barbet Schroeder Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
    Barbet Schroeder
    Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer (1941 - )
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  • Sir Hugh Walpole Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
    Sir Hugh Walpole
    British writer
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  • William James Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Andy Rooney Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Arnold Bennett Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Agnes Martin Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Ken Keyes Jr Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • Burton Hills Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
    Burton Hills
    British politician (1883 - 1963)
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  • Norman Macewan Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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  • George Santayana Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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