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> [“Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/everything-that-god-sends-us-is-beautiful-even-though-we-may-not/)

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## More by Adalbert Stifter

> [“People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we were just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/people-make-themselves-unhappy-by-desiring-and-praising-only-one/)

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> [“Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/everything-that-now-exists-no-matter-how-great-and-good-it-is-lasts/)

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> [“Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/here-for-example-the-beautiful-silver-mirror-of-a-river-swells-a-boy/)

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> [“While they were speaking of - in their opinion - great things, around about them only little things - also in their opinion -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/while-they-were-speaking-of-in-their-opinion-great-things-around/)

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> [“. . . for us there still exists a serene, unfathomable abyss in which God and the spirits dwell. The soul, in moments of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/for-us-there-still-exists-a-serene-unfathomable-abyss-in-which-god/)

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> [“In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/in-the-old-pieces-of-furniture-almost-as-in-the-old-paintings-dwells/)

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> [“Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/everything-that-god-sends-us-is-beautiful-even-though-we-may-not/)

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> [“How great inexperience and innocence is. On the authority of their parents they go to a place where they could meet their death; for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/how-great-inexperience-and-innocence-is-on-the-authority-of-their/)

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> [“Everyone is out for himself. Not everyone will say so but everyone behaves so. And those that don't say so often behave in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/everyone-is-out-for-himself-not-everyone-will-say-so-but-everyone/)

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> [“The floor consisted of the most colorful marble that is found in our mountains. The slabs overlapped so well that scarcely a joint could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/the-floor-consisted-of-the-most-colorful-marble-that-is-found-in-our/)

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> [“On increasingly warm nice days I liked to sit toward noon on the bench encircling the cherry tree and look at the bare trees,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/on-increasingly-warm-nice-days-i-liked-to-sit-toward-noon-on-the/)

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> [“Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/don-t-the-overwhelming-majority-believe-that-mankind-is-the-crowning/)

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