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- Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
- John Gardner
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live.
- Mortimer Adler
- The happy do not believe in miracles.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
- Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
- Robert S. Lynd
- The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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