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Happiness

«True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.»
«To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low»
«To describe happiness is to diminish it.»
Author: Stendhal | About: Happiness | Keywords: describe, diminish
«To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.»
«To know nothing is the happiest life»
«True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.»
«To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness»
Author: John Dewey (Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Happiness | Keywords: fitted
«To forget oneself is to be happy.»
«True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand»
Author: Henry James | About: Happiness | Keywords: errand, errands
«True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | About: Happiness | Keywords: arises