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Happiness
«A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.»
Author: Hugh Downs
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
attitudes, certain, circumstances, happy, In a, person, rather, set, set about, under the circumstances
«A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.»
«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»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
atmosphere, dare, extent, Happy Life, joy, quiet, quieted, quieter, quiets, Quiet Life, to a great extent, to that extent, to what extent
«As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Death and dying,
Happiness,
Motivational
| Keywords:
brings, Happy Days, sleep, sleep out, sleep over, spent, The Happiest Days
«And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds»
«Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.»
«As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things»
«Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Achievement,
Happiness,
Marriage
| Keywords:
applied, attainment, Greek, malicious, remark, the Greek