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John W. Gardner

"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."

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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

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"Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

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"To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness."

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"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."

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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."

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"The diversity of different colours is displayed in a rainbow."

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"The quietness of spirit is an inner peace."

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"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

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"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything.""
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"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life."
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"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
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"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
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"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
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"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
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