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“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
“When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.”
“People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
“The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.”
“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.”
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.”
“Character is like a tree & reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing. ”
“Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.”
“Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple - yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.”
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
“Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.”
“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ”
“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
“Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”
“Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.”
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”
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