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 Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.  All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. Never eat more than you can lift. There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment. My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera, and I'd have had a lot less interesting life. The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame. You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. God's mill grinds slow, but sure. There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar. Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something. Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this. I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married. 
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