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“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.”

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Peyton C. March

Peyton C. March, a mysterious historical figure, lived from December 27, 1864, to April 13, 1955. His detailed information is limited. more

“Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.”

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Author:Plutarch

“False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.”

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Author:Walter Rauschenbusch

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”

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