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We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow
There is no hope of joy except in human relations
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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