To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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