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"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
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"Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception."

"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."

"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."
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"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."

"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."

"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."

"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."

"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."
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