If we are not happy and joyous at this season,

for what other season shall we wait and

for what other time shall we look?

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...

Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is

not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building,

the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good

to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to

make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for

the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the

great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life

so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to

think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

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