"Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated."
-Thomas Bulfinch
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"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.“
-Thomas Bulfinch
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"Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education."
-Thomas Bulfinch
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"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation."
-Thomas Bulfinch
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
-Dalai Lama
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell
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