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“If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only...”
“There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.”
“Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.”
“If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.”
“Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
“Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent two or no children at all.”
“There's a thread that binds all of us together pull one end of the thread the strain is felt all down the line.”
“Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.”
“Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.”
“Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."”
“Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.”
“To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
“It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.”
“Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.”
“Getting what you go after is success but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.”
“No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.”
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.”
“Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
“Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.”
“The genius of happiness is still so rare is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar but to treat it with the proud generosity of a ...”
