If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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