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• The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. -- Epicuru
• There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil.
  The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us....
• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
  -- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer (1934)...
• Dear Mr. Fantasy, play us a tune, something to make us all happy.
  Do anything, take us out of this gloom. Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy....
• Best trust the happy moments... the days that make us happy make us wise. -- John Masefield
• Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love
  Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongue...
• Money can't buy happiness. It buys things that make you happy.
• Take time to do the things that really make you happy.
• I'd do anything to make you happy, but you're asking too much.