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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.
Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
