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Why do I want to run from happiness?
Mary Balogh
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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
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Abertawe
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Happiness
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The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
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There is nothing worse, is there, she said, than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
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One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
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There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree? - Aidan Bedwyn
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There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
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I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.
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My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
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I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.
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There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?
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But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
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Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
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Have you noticed, she asked him, how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
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If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
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He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
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Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
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But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
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The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
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I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
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Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.
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