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He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses t...more

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In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not l...more

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

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If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We...more

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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learn...more

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Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's w...more

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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly a...more

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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so in...more

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By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happine...more

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Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of ...more

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Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but wil...more

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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of pe...more