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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. – Henry David Thoreau

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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind. – Philo

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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. – Jeremy Collier

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. – George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898

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