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"The righteous shall rejoice."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Song of praise: Be joyful and count your blessings. There are so many things to be thankful for; the gift of being alive, blessings of a new day to hope and dream, the gift of families, the gift of children, the gift of friends, gift of people who make you laugh and smiles, the gift of strangers who show you kindness,the gift of nature, gift of educators, gift of preachers and many more."
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"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."
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"As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy."
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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
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"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."
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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
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"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."
Work
"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."
Happiness
"I always want to write something better than the last book."
Want
"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."
Time
"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."
Writing
"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."
People
"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
Society
"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."
Travel
"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
Life
"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."
Health
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