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"Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home."

"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."

"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

"Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time."

"It is wealth to be content."

"The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others."

"A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason."


"Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn."


"Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work."


"A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission."


"It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world."


"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."
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