The grand essentials

The grand essentials
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.
  

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We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.
Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.
Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.