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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good read more
We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and read more
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are
ways and means of compounding such matters.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are
ways and means of compounding such matters.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things
which you will enjoy, unless you are read more
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things
which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by
them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other
account than mere delight.
