Quote by Helen Keller
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

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As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller

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Selfishness
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

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Experience
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

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great
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. – Zoe Saldana

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – Albert Camus

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Happiness

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. – Andrew Weil

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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. – Cato The Elder

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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. – Daisy Ashford

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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I have offended God and mankind because my work didnt reach the quality it should have. – Leonardo da Vinci

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