Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.
It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.
There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.
Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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