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No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no
material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the
sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for
the preservation of self-approval.

-- Minot Simons


A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

- English proverb


The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing.

- Anonymous

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help
them become what they are capable of becoming.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

--There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is,
not to be true to the best one knows.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

- The Cockle Bur

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.

- Dennis Wholey