Maybe Happiness Is This…

2017-03-16 2017-03-17 by Gerald Zhang-Schmidt

Isaac Asimov on Happiness

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. — Isaac Asimov

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