Happiness
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves
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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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