To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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