The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

When we were young [we saw ourselves] as men, now [we are considered] children.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

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