Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

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Many people have this idea that happiness is the absence of suffering and that simply being happy is all that it takes to be successful. This is a mistaken idea. In fact, happiness is a byproduct of being successful, not the other way around. Happiness is an effect of having what you want, not a cause of having what you want.

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