"I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it."

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Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

— Matthieu Ricard