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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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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. – Tom Ford

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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Aeschylus

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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. – Helen Gurley Brown

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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be – William Golding

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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt

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