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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
— Samuel Johnson
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Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
— Martin Luther
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Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not…
— Janet Morris
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking
— Samuel Johnson
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I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking.…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all…
— Francis Collins
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This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want…
— Margo Jones
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An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of…
— John By
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