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"The proper course is not to destroy thought but to turn it into new channels, or at any rate into channels remote from the present misfortune."

"One of the sources of unhappiness, fatigue, and nervous strain is inability to be interested in anything that is not of practical importance in one's own life."

"...for the causes of family unhappiness in our day are of the most diverse sorts, psychological, economic, social, educational, and political."

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

"Fads and hobbies, however, are in many cases, perhaps most, not a source of fundamental happiness, but a means of escape from reality, of forgetting for the moment some pain too difficult to be faced. Fundamental happiness depends more than anything eke upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things."

"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort with powerlessness. Powerlessness makes people feel that nothing is worth doing, and comfort makes the painfulness of this feeling just endurable."

"The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure."

"Some American students took me walking in the spring through a wood on the borders of their campus; it was filled with exquisite wild flowers, but not one of my guides knew the name of even one of them. What use would such knowledge be? It could not add to anybody's income." -- This makes me realize what a special person my dad is.

"God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!" - 아버지께서 이렇게 양면적인 사람을 조심하라고 하셨다.