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Happiness often comes when least expected.
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Expected
Hector
Searching For Happiness
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Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
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Hector
Searching For Happiness
Spoil
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Many people see happiness only in their future.
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Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
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Knowing
Sometimes
Stories
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Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.
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Persons
Want
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It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.
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Knowing
One Thing
Thinking
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The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!
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Mistake
People
Thinking
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Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.
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Feelings
Knowing
Two
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Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.
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Caring
Lessons
Searching For Happiness
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Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.
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More Money
People
Thinking
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He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
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Long
Regret
Years
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You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.
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Be Careful
People
Upset
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Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.
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Earth
Heaven
People
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People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.
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Emotional
Falling In Love
People
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Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
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Friendship
Happy
Different
Eros
Reciprocal
Serene
Share
Each
Experiences
Pleasures
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Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'
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Love Is
Romantic Love
Ideal
Peaks
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I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
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Ingredients
Self Help
Discover
Intend
Sets
Tale
Vital
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Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
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Expression
Falling In Love
Giving
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Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
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Happiness
Affair
Constant
Eros
Expression
Fall
Falling In Love
Impulse
Involuntary
Love Affair
Tranquil
Wellbeing
Since
Beginning
Falling
Feeling
Gives
Physical
Rather
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We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.
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Falling In Love
Love Is
People
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It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.
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Adventure
Successful
Thinking
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Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?
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Hair
Joy
People
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And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and sometimes it is the last person we should fall in love with. Our involuntary choice is not always the right one, and sometimes it is actually the worst one, hence our suffering. And then, of course, there is the completely different situation of the loving people where, over the years, the love they once felt for each other fades and they can't go on. They feel their love dying, but are unable to bring it back to life.
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Falling In Love
Loving Life
Moving
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