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"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning."
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"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."

"When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."

"Savour a slow-paced contented life."

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more."

"Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?"

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."

"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."

"I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives."

"Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice."

"Kids are kids and not little adults. They're watching and listening to you all the time. They're figuring out the game plan but still don't know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they'll respect you for it."

"Starting the Day- Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive."

"I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."

"I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making."
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