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“You can’t repeat a favorite experience, but you can have another one that’s just as good.”

“The vulgar error is to think that love is a kind of illusion. It is the fault of bad poets who encourage this mistake. “I am completely enraptured,” lovers say, as if somehow they were being deceived. When the affair ends, they say, “I have been stripped of my illusions.” When they cease to love, they say, “Oh. I see him clearly now.” The reverse is the truth. The everyday world is shrouded. We see it dimly. Only when we love do we see the true person. The truth of a person is only visible through love. Love is not the illusion. Life is.”

“Perfect happiness I believe, was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world. The most fortunate of us frequently meet with calamities which may greatly afflict us. And to fortify our minds against the attacks of these misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.”

“It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable, he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.”

“Ignore any messages of success this can only result in failure!”