Abiding happiness is not ...

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.
 Newell Dwight Hillis

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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
 Newell Dwight Hillis
Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.
 Newell Dwight Hillis