Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

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The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ― Ernest Hemingway

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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

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The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

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