"Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life."
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"The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health."
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"The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found"
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"The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."
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"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life."
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"I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life."
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"Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments."
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"Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice."
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"The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
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"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."
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"A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day."
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"I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist"
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"Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."
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"When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more."
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"There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life."
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"What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy."
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"My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey."
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"Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity."
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"I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space."
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"Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?"
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