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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere…
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle…
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each…
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy…
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this…
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious…
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain…
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity…
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
— Ludwig Borne
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Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.
— Juan Bosch
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Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
— Robert Baker Aitken
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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all…
— Rajneesh
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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that…
— Mary Parker Follett
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The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
— Che Guevara
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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into…
— Ned Rorem
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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