The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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