"Happiness is there for the taking -..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey
Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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“You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.”
“I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.”
“All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.”
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“It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
“Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.”
More on Choice
“Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.”
“Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”
“Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.”