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"I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine."
"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
"Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy."
"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young."
"People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy."
"I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged."
"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
"He who is contented is rich."
"I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star."
"The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters."
"When you learn to die, you learn to live."
"The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it."
