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«The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Admiration,
Desire,
Happiness
| Keywords:
admire, desiring
«The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.»
«The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.»
«The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be»
Author: Marcel Pagnol
(Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
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«The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.»
«The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Happiness,
Past,
The Present,
Time
| Keywords:
hoping, inevitable, thus
«The purpose of our lives is to be happy.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Happiness
«The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.»
«The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
As Far, as far as possible, far, far and wide, friendlier, friendly, hostile, interest, interests, persons, possible, rather, reactions, secret, The Secret, wide, widest
«The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Happiness,
Safety,
Society
| Keywords:
political institutions, sacrificed, such institutions
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