"The secret of a happy life lies not in getting what we want, but in wanting what we get"

"Things are never as bad as you fear or as good as you hope." (Bertrand Russell)

"Half of the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." (TS Eliot)

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