People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.
Source:Quoted in 'Chaplin's Heart, Aims Bared in S.F. Talk' by George P. West, San Francisco Call (November 11, 1922)
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