If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you'll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
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Love all Gods creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If you love each thing you will perceive the mystery of God in all and when once you perceive this, you will from that time on grow every day to a fuller understanding of it until you come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy.... If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
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I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit Of at first I dont succeed, I quit.
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