"The biggest happiness is when at the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
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“I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.”
“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”
“Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.”
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“Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.”
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
“Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.”
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“We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.”
“There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.”
“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”