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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: hardship, life, love, struggling
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: inspirational, the-notebook
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
    ― Nicholas Sparks
    tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Don't think there are no second chances.

    Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE...

    It's called TOMORROW”
    ― Nicholas Sparks
    tags: the-notebook
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
    ― George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures
    tags: happiness, inspirational, misattributed-to-chalmers, misattributed-to-joseph-addison, misattributed-to-kant, misattributed-tom-bodett, widely-misattributed
    2345 likes

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    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: fight, happiness, learn
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    Jon Krakauer
    “Happiness [is] only real when shared”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage
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    Mother Teresa
    “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: happiness
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
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    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness
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    Sri Chinmoy
    “I am very happy
    Because I have conquered myself
    And not the world.
    I am very happy
    Because I have loved the world
    And not myself.”
    ― Sri Chinmoy
    tags: agape, happiness, self-control
    838 likes

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    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, love, relationships, touching
    7282 likes



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