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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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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. – H. Jackson Brown

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I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. – Linda Evans

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. – Joseph Butler

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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. – Jean de la Bruyere

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