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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes Jr.
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Ken Keyes Jr.
Age: 74 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 19
Died: 1995
Died: December 20
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Georgia
Ken Keyes
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Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.
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It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.
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I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.
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