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“Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.”
― Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
― Andy Rooney

“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.”
― John Barrymore

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren’t looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing!”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Good men don’t need to become legends.” She opened her eyes, looking up at him. “They just do what’s right anyway.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“I don’t care if you’re an optimist or a pessimist—I don’t care if secretly, you think we’ll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages