Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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