Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

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Gertrude Stein

Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.

— Jean de La Bruyère

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

— Schopenhauer

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the dominance of outward conditions.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

This is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

— Willa Cather

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

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