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 A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.  We must have courage to bet on our ideas, on the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about. The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble, often by not asking questions. However, it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer. - Jay Leno No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage. One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn. I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved. I am tired before the concert, not afterward. It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got. Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only. Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. 
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