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 Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.  What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions. Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable. Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship. For me, happiness came from prayer to a kindly God, faith in a kindly God, love for my fellow man, and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there, either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness. Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him. Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it? There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. 
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