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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans lack of faith in his true Self. – William James

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder

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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. – Marguerite Gardiner

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Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. – Henry James Sumner Maine

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. – Denis Waitley

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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I dont think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. – Frank Sinatra

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Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in powers disappearance. – Hannah Arendt

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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it. – Proverb

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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