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"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"You can love again."
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"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."
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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."
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"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."
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"A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream."
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"At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, thanking Him for His mercies . . . listening in the silence for what He has to say to us."
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"Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn."
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"Happiness is not a destination but a choice."
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"No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us."
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"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."
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"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
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"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment."
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"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."
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"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."
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"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."
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"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."
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"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."
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"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport."
People

"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."
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