“One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
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If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.