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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.