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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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Poet
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1874
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1936
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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1936
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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