We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. - Walter Savage Landor

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My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A. M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

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