“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

— Thomas Szasz

“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness?”

— Albert Einstein

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

— Winston Churchill

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

— C.S. Lewis

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”

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