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"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."

Time, America, College, October

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

Happiness, Balance, Harmony, Order

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

Art, Time

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."

Peace, War, Truth, Sacrifice

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."

Life, Soul, Earth, Man

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

Death, Life, Eyes, Light

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."

Humility, Pride

"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."

Peace, Soul, Heart, Christ

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another."

Life, Love, Destiny, Meaning

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

Advertising, Seriousness

Exlpore more Happiness quotes

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

Happiness, Work, Thought, Heart

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Happiness, Eyes, Temper

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Happiness, Being, Body, Mind

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Happiness,

"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Happiness, Quality, Difference

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Happiness, Man, Philosophy

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Happiness, Love, People, Smile

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

Happiness, People, Fun, Succeed

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Happiness, Beauty, God, Opportunity

"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Happiness, Living, Sense, Wonder