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

It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.

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.

In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.

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

Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception.

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.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.

It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.

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

They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.

You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.

In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.

Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.

The ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.

The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.

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.

In the next place, it is false that those that have little to do are easy in mind.

All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.

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.