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Quote by Norman Douglas
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Im passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period. – Suge Knight

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Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony. – James Allen

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

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