It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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