Lionel Shriver quote

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver
Born: May 18, 1957

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