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"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
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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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"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."

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

"As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge."

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

"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."
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