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“It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.”
“I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.”
“There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.”
“I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.”
“Live virtuously and you cannot die too soon or live too long.”
“People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.”
“We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.”
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.”
“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.”
“To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.”
“This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.”
“I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband only another man would make me think that way.”
“A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
“Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.”
“Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.”
“The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.”
“Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.”
“Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.”
“Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you and not y...”
“Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your leg...”
