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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. – James Thomson

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? – James Thomson

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. – James Thomson

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Happiness
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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. – Ethel Percy Andrus

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Happiness

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Happiness

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett

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If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. – Jack Kerouac

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Dreams

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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Martyr, Martyrdom

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, Dont go in that door! because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends. – Marco Rubio

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Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. – Mark Amidon

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Ideas