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The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter. ↗

#close-mindedness #intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #opinions

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#happiness #life #memory #pleasure #education

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#life #life

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#divine #fear #floods #flow #hesitate

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ↗

— Aristotle

#life

People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #history #inspirational #let-go #letting-go

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#happiness #space #life

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#puppy #life

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. ↗