Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. . Ann Brashares
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The idea of happiness taking practice is a powerful one. In an article written in The New Yorker, James Thurber recalled his time with the Stoics. He said, “they taught that life was a game of hide-and-seek, and that the only way to win the game was to be on the lookout for life’s tricks. If you had not found everything by the time you were forty, you would probably die at fifty, but if you had found it all, you might live to be an hundred.

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

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