Elizabeth Gilbert
"When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. (From her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway.)"
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James Clavell
"To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about."
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Marianne Williamson
"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Anonymous
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
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Judith Martin
"Valuing people for their efforts and achievements, and thus expecting everyone to lead a useful life, even those who can well afford to be useless, is one of America's greatest contributions to the world."
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Unknown
"Yesterday is history,
Tomorrow's a mystery.
Today is a gift; that's why they call it "the present"."
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Alain De Botton
"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect."
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Orville Wright
"Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness.
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