Happiness
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It is a happiness to wonder; - it is a happiness to dream.
Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.
The Dyer's Hand
Happiness seems made to be shared
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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