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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation…
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Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more…
— Rajneesh
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Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
— John Templeton
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
— Immanuel Kant
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When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've…
— Dean Koontz
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a…
— Georges Canguilhem
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The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
— Rick Warren
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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The highest benevolence acts without purpose.
— Laozi
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity,…
— R. J. Anderson
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You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue…
— Khalil Gibran
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