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Real happiness is not dependent on external things.
Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!
Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.
One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.