A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Albert EinsteinSchool essay 'Mes Projets d'Avenir' (1896)
About Albert Einstein
Physicist who developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize. (1879-1955)
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- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post (1929)
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Letter to his son Eduard (1930)
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.Quoted in 'Death of a Genius', LIFE magazine (1955)
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.Letter to Carl Seelig (1952)
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Reply to the editors of Youth, quoted in The New York Times (1932)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Mein Weltbild / The World As I See It (1931)
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- It takes a very long time to become young.Pablo Picasso
- I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.Audrey Hepburn
- Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows If you're looking down.Charlie Chaplin
- Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.Lucille Ball
- Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.Tony Robbins
- Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.Dale Carnegie
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