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24-Year-Old William Styron on Happiness, Presence, and the True Measure of Maturity, in a Letter to His Father
“I’ll always hate the stupid and the bat-brained and the petty. But it doesn’t seem nearly so important anymore to hate, as try to understand.”
A Seizure of Happiness: Mary Oliver on Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments
How to revel in the “sudden awareness of the citizenry of all things within one world.”
Self-Scrutiny Applied with Kindness: Epictetus’s Enduring Wisdom on Happiness and the Art of Answering the Soul’s Cry
“Spirited curiosity is an emblem of the flourishing life.”
Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Happiness, Spirituality Without Religion, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
“Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit.”
The Poetics of Reverie: Philosopher Gaston Bachelard on Love, Solitude, and Happiness
“Love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.”
The Key to the Good Life: Bertrand Russell on Love and How to Stop Limiting Your Happiness
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.”
Lewis Carroll on Happiness and How to Alleviate Our Discomfort with Change
“There’s no use in comparing one’s feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.”
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
Why “the demand for happiness and the patient quest for it” isn’t a luxury or a mere need but our existential duty.
Nobel-Winning Playwright Eugene O’Neill on Happiness and the True Measure of Success in a Letter to His Unmotivated Young Son
“Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.”
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