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“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.”

People World Use Can Do Secret Forever This World Elevating Secret To Happiness

Book:Novels and Stories

Source: Novels and Stories

“Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

World Death Secret This World Strange Folly

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Different Life Is Secret This World Creator Different Ways Better Life Live For Others

Author:Max Lucado

“I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?”

World Firsts Done Use Seems Jobs Secret This World Useless Demon Decent Nausea

Book:A diary of my times

Source: A diary of my times

“To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.”

World Secret This World Instruments Experiments Clumsy Causality

Author:Banesh Hoffmann

“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.”

World Soul Ends States Lasts Turns Secret Existence This World Tears Eternal Seasons Crisis Disappear Transition Phases Torment Passing Away

Book:How It All Began: The Prison Novel

Source: How It All Began: The Prison Novel

“A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.”

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Author:Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.”

“This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!”

World Imagination Sleep Secret Known Sea This World Discovery Built Fairs Green Islands Fairy Sunlight Communion Foul

Author:J. G. Holland

“You have endless energy only when you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give.”

World Giving Littles Whole Energy Given Interest Secret This World Selfish Endless Selfish Interest

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's what's great about this world is it's a world where he is off the grid, and for me, it's a way to step back.”

Thinking World Way Hard Secret Steps Hell This World Communicate Storytelling Grids

Author:Brian Wayne Peterson