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- People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
- We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy…
- In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
- Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating…
- Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know…
- We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
- The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
- Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes