Robertson Davies

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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Blaise Pascal

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

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Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

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Old Russian saying

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

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American Indian Proverb

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

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Christine Bovee

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

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Vaclav Havel

Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.

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Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

The time for thinkers has come.

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Thomas Fuller

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.

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Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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Dr. Joyce Brothers

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

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