There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
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Jodi Picoult
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Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

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Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

بواسطة Jodi Picoult

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

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What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it

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Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"

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A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

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We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.

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She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?"

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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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