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«If you want happiness, provide it to others»
«If you want to be happy, be.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
happy
«If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.»
«If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
resign, resigning, resigns, seeing
«If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.»
«If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Goals,
Happiness
| Keywords:
goal, happy, Happy Life, I Want to Live, life, live, make happy, people, things, tie, tied up, tie up, To Live, tying, want
«If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.»
«In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.»
Author: Robert White
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Happiness,
Inspiration,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
People,
Success,
Understanding,
Wisdom
«Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
as to, impossible, indeed, wishes
«In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.»
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