Was it possible I just didn’t want to be happy.
HANNA SHEBAR
HANNA SHEBAR
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Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Choosing yourself should not be an option, It should be a decision.
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TMCTMC Your arms around me – and for the first time in years, I feel like I am home.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BoethiusBoethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BoethiusBoethius They sold us the idea of happiness at the price of actual happiness.
Sarah J. MarvinSarah J. Marvin In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson I am happy even before I have a reason.
HafezHafez Let the ocean worry about being blue.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BoethiusBoethius Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson