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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. |
Saying that positive thinking usually doesn’t work is such heresy that I may be unceremoniously drummed out of the personal development field. And, it is mostly true. |
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. |
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow |
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment. |
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. |
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So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. |
So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first |
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Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. |