The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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