Quote by Thor Heyerdahl
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the mira

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. – Thor Heyerdahl

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War
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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesnt even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Nature
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I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I dont believe it exists. Ive felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. – Thor Heyerdahl

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alone
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. – James Allen

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Happiness

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille

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Happiness isnt happiness unless theres a violin-playing goat. – Julia Roberts

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Happiness

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldnt separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. – Donna Rice

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. – William Hazlitt

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