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“An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world.” quote by Iain Pears — Download Open image

““An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world.””

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“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have…

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“The next day was a dream of such perfection that I have never approached the like again. It was, of course, all illusion, but I like to think of it still in isolation from what came after,as a moment of bliss, one of those days when on is no longer oneself, but becomes bigger, and better, able to overcome the…

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him…

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I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

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“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an…

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When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late…

“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he…

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“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles…

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In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly.…

“Aunt Gertie could not tell the difference between 1928 and now. Uncle Joseph was dead and alive. In other words, she grasped the essential non-existence of time. Generally speaking, our minds impose an entirely artificial order on the world. It is the only way that such an inadequate instrument as our brain can function. It cannot deal with the complexity…

“I cannot remember a single painting, although I do remember trying hard to be deeply impressed by them at the time.”

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“It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. “You…

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The happiest people among us are those who can sleep when they want to.

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

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“The happiest people in the world are those who make others happy.”

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I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I…

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The happiest people don't have the best of everything, but they make the best out of everything they have.

Rachel Copeland

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“I have an unfortunate character; whether it is my upbringing that made me like that or God who created me so, I do not know. I know only that if I cause unhappiness to others, I myself am no less happy. I realize this is poor consolation for them - but the fact remains that it is so. In my…

Mikhail Lermontov

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

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The unhappiest people in the world are those who care the most about what other people think.

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