If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

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When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.

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The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I? ― Bob Marley

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Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur

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The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

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Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. - Norman Vincent Peale

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy. ― Jane Austen, Emma

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