"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."

Twain, Mark on biography   

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Twain, Mark on procrastination
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"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors."

Twain, Mark on invention and inventor
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Jung, Carl on imitation
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

Dalai Lama on service
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Dyer, Wayne on happiness
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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