Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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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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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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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Leo Tolstoy

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Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

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