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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to read more
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she read more
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of read more
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into read more
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.
The message from the hedge-leaves,
Heed it, whoso thou art;
Under lowly eaves
Lives read more
The message from the hedge-leaves,
Heed it, whoso thou art;
Under lowly eaves
Lives the happy heart.
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
