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Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

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Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

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Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe. ↗

— Lewis Black

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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one ↗

— Rumi

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Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace. ↗

— Jim McDonald

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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid. ↗

— Livy

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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

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