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“This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“I, for one, live only by and for happiness.”
— David Vogel, Married Life
“Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 6.
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
— Bertrand Russell, in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood, quoted in Alan Wood's Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7.
“Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?”
— What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
— Marcus Aurelius

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