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 For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.  Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes? Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing. We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live. There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened. Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. "Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it. I don't know what humor is. I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go, they go! A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct. 
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