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 Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time; but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.  Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. None think the great unhappy, but the great. True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness. Faith, as an intellectual state, is self-reliance. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe. The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat. - Socrates As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough. Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me. You had better be ready to change your mind when needed, or your mind will change you. Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life. We noticed a crasher at the bar - that shows what a real man he is - he's here to show he's not ticked for not being asked. 
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