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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes: It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.
         

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.


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