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  1. Charles Dickens _ Great Expectations

    I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. {p. 119}
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  3. Louisa May Alcott _ Kitty's Class Day and Other

    How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.
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  4. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Bright-Sided: How the

    Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mind perhaps more accessible to those who are affluent, who conform to social norms, who suppress judgment in the service of faith, and who are not overly bothered by societal injustice...The real conservatism of positive psychology lies in its attachment to the status quo, with all its inequalities and abuses of power. Positive psychologists' tests of happiness and well-being, for example, rest heavily on measures of personal contentment with things as they are.
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  5. Jack London _ The Call of the Wild/White

    Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.
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  6. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    Happiness {is} only real when shared"
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  7. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.There's no one alivewho can say if he will be tomorrow.Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!But don't forget Aphrodite--that's You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?I think so. How about a drink.Put on a garland. I'm surethe happy splash of wine will cure your mood.We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
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  8. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.
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  9. Michael Thomas Ford _ Suicide Notes

    Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work.What might look like the perfect life - or even an okay life - to you might not be so okay for the person living it.
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  10. Lisa Schroeder _ Falling For You

    The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others.
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  11. V.C. Andrews _ Pearl in the Mist

    Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
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  12. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough.
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