Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
No human creature can give orders to love.
To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.