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To be able to throw ones self away for the sake of a moment, to be

To be able to throw ones self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a womans smile – that is happiness. – Hermann Hesse

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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. – Hermann Hesse

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It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. – Hermann Hesse

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Remember happiness doesnt depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think. – Dale Carnegie

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I dont really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. – Eddie Albert

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine

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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. – Ted Nugent

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

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