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Charles Morgan

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Morgan

Change

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Living well means understanding that happiness will take different shapes over time rather than trying to hold on to one fixed way of feeling happy. Just as a child naturally grows and changes, we should accept that our happiness evolves and not feel let down when it does.

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