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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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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it…
— Mary Astell
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing…
— Niels Bohr
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Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant,…
— Owen Feltham
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Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.
— Oprah Winfrey
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared…
— Nat King Cole
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…
— H.G. Wells
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The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to…
— Roger Cohen
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Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.
— Buddy Ebsen
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Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think…
— Brian Johnson
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only…
— Samuel Johnson
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