Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Author: Robert Green Ingersoll

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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.