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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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"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."

"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."

"Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God."

"My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me."
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