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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do read more
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down read more
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we read more
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for read more
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, read more
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]
It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the read more
It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.