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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 fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good...more

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The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is imp...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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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to r...more

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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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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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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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I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done...more