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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

Other quotes by Norman Douglas

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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respect
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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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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry. – DJ Jazzy Jeff

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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Mans happiness really lies in contentment. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Its afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didnt necessarily prove that you loved him. – Marguerite Duras

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. – Chinese Proverb

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