"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."

Dyer, Wayne on opinions
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"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."

Dyer, Wayne on mind
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"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."

Dyer, Wayne on procrastination
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"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

Dyer, Wayne on regret
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

Dyer, Wayne on action
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on faults
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Experience is the name we give to our mistakes."

Wilde, Oscar on mistakes
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"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on loneliness
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"People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most."

Dyer, Wayne on approval
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"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him."

Cher on women
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"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries."

Cher on men
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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

Fromm, Erich on possessions
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"“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”"

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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

Dyer, Wayne on decisions
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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is."

Dyer, Wayne on enlightenment
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"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery."

Dyer, Wayne on freedom
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"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."

Dyer, Wayne on gratitude
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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Dyer, Wayne on happiness
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

Dyer, Wayne on ignorance
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"There is no sin except stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on sin
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