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“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.”
“Best to live lightly unthinkingly.”
“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first some unfinished business time still to be serv...”
“But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.”
“The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.”
“So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.”
“Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.”
“We are all happy if we only knew it.”
“Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.”
“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.”
“Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.”
“Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery but there is an admirable substitute ...”
“If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.”
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.”
“When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.”
“The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.”
“The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with hum...”
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.”
“We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”
