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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude. ↗

— André Maurois

#life #wisdom #life

Time creates Let time work at your projects. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#decision-inspirational #decision-making #fulfilling-life #happiness #projects

Don't underestimate the effects of complacency … cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose. ↗

— Erica Goros

#inspiration #keep-going #strive #inspirational

Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided. - 12/7/2012 on his Facebook page ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#health #inspirational #peace #spirituality #values

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. ↗

— Helen Keller

#joy #purpose #intelligence

For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#knowledge #intelligence

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#happiness #life #memory #pleasure #education

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world. ↗

— Julian Gough

#hurt #life #life

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation? ↗

— Yann Martel

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