"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.“
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"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
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"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
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