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And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.

For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.