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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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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of…
— Richard Sibbes
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I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for…
— Booth Tarkington
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system…
— Bruce Lee
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
— Walter Pater
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If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
— David Platt
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It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
— Francois Fenelon
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if…
— William Shakespeare
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
— Honore de Balzac
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