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«It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.»
Author: Agnes Repplier
(Essayist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
and elsewhere, easy, elsewhere, find, happiness, possible
«It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
aiming, be full, lasting, paradox
«I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
am, convinced, convinces, depends, events, far, in any event, I am, meet, Meet The, more and more, on the way, themselves, The Way, unhappiness
«It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.»
«It will take time for us all to understand what has happened to us, but it is a joy to be surrounded by such happiness.»
«It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.»
«It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can be happy in this world»
«I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.»
«It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Feelings,
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
caring, come by, Rest of the world, very much
«It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Country,
Happiness,
Virtue
| Keywords:
boast, collective, dependent, dependent on, exertions, peculiar, rests, The Collective
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