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“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.” — Peabo Bryson

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“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” — Walt Whitman

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“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

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“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.” — Brandon Boyd

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“You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.” — John Mayer

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“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” — James Barrie

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