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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 gardene...more

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

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A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not goo...more

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we hav...more

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbe...more

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the s...more

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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those w...more

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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to kn...more