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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhyt

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. – Thomas Merton

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

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With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Informd what is the true Way to Happiness. – Mary Astell

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. – Mother Teresa

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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

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You can only trust yourself… and barely that. – Paige Wilson

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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

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You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. – Brad Garrett

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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. – David Mallet

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