Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Eskimo Proverb
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Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
George Sand
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
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To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
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To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
Jim Valvano
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Anthony de Mello
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him
Marguerite Duras
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To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Stuart
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.
Aeschylus
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
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'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was bent, and his gait was slow,
His long thin hair was white as snow,
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.
And he sang every night as he went to bed,
"Let us be happy down here below:
The living should live, though the dead be dead."
Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
George Arnold
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
[Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]
Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
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Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and
legislation.
Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten
lost.
Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
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What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et
libertate contentum negligere humana?]
Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
Quotes , Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction)
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