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 Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.  Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance. It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly. Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees. A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground. Art thou lonely, O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended, And thy loneliness is ended. They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry. Women don't have halos built in. Fear breeds fear. Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy. The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.' The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. When you can't solve the problem, manage it. Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. 
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