Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
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- Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
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