Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Dalai Lama Quote
“Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.”
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