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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin FranklinMy words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William ShakespeareHome is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost |
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Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks. Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most. No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each. Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded; a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed; a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely. What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability!-Life in the making? We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. |
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