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"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
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"You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience."

"Make peace with your now moment. Live in this very moment and be happy with what you have. Joy enters when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offering thanks for all the troubles we don't have. And be aware, you have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life."

"I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?"

"Don't let your mood or happiness be dictated by the judgement of others but stay true to that you believe in because you're the architect of your own happiness."

"Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were winging on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe."

"The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it."
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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"

"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."

"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."

"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."

"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
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