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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of read more
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we read more
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, read more
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
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What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.
