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To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.

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

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

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.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

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.

Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

One thing you can depend on people being…is people.

As therefore the shoe is shaped by the foot, and not the foot by the shoe, so does the disposition make the life similar to itself.

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.

For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.

Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

A wise man gives way to tears in some cases, and cannot avoid them in others.

Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.

But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.

Self care is being honest with yourself about your negative habits. It's taking ownership of your faults and growing from them. It's diverting from negative space to positive one. It's creating balance. It's watering your own garden. It's being gentle but honest with yourself.