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Letter "H" » Happiness
«Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.»
«Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Anger,
Happiness,
Ideology,
Religion
| Keywords:
arguments, atheism, atheists, let alone, persuasive, provide, secularism
«Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Happiness,
People
| Keywords:
bloom, homo, Homo sapiens, kidding, manages, sapiens
«We have been given a gift that is really, really precious. It?s simple. It isn?t going to get us anything. It isn?t there to augment anything. It?s there for us to be able to experience something that is within ourselves. It is not there to change our religions, our practices, our daily lives. But it is only there for one reason, for one reason alone. Simple happiness. Simple joy.»
«Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness»
«Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
involuntarily, nineteen, twentieths, unquestionably
«True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.»
«Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.»
«Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy»
«True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Duty,
Happiness
| Keywords:
abundantly, amuse, anxious, dependence, duties, sufficient
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