“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.”
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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
