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"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."
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"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."
"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."
"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."
"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."
"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."
"As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge."
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