What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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