"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of h...
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"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.