“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
