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Happiness
«The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.»
«The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.»
«The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness,
Independence
| Keywords:
cheerfully, dependent, meet, Meet The, morrow, morrows
«The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Happiness,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
bored, henceforward, independent, only too, steeped, steeps, temperate, through and through, through with, Too Short
«The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| About:
Appearance,
Happiness,
Nature,
Suffering
| Keywords:
in due course, in due season, Summer and
«The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Happiness,
Limits,
People
| Keywords:
as good as, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, spring
«The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
Happy ending, relation, The Happy Ending
«The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness
| Keywords:
declare, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, derived, higher degree, impressions, intense, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, union