To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. ― Pearl S. Buck

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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. _Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. - Arthur Smith

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Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. ― Irving Berlin

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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within ― Helen Keller

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. _ Marcus Aurelius

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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. ― Alain de Botton

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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. _ Aeschylus

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. _ Saint Augustine

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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. _ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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