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#happiness

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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. ↗


— Wallace Stegner


#happiness #harmony #keystones #love #marriage

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed. ↗


— Albert Camus


#death

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. ↗


— Horace


#death

It is utterly impossible to be happy without being grateful. ↗


— Toni Sorenson


#life

It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human lifetime, since he fears death far too much to do that, but rather than he does not situate himself in any of these three scales of time. Instead, he is forever stuck somewhere in-between, this evening, tomorrow morning, next week, next Christmas, in five years’ time. As a result, he has neither the joy of the present moment, nor the satisfied accomplishments of a human lifetime, nor the perspective and immortality of the eternal. ↗


— Neel Burton


#happiness #immortality #meaning #time #death

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history. ↗


— Albert Camus


#happiness #history #misery #death

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms. ↗


— Albert Camus


#death

count no man happy until he be dead. ↗


— Solon


#happiness #temporary #death

From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would. ↗


— George Saunders


#death #dying #happiness #death

Quand nous prendrons conscience de notre rôle, même le plus effacé, alors seulement nous serons heureux. Alors seulement nous pourrons vivre en paix et mourir en paix, car ce qui donne un sens à la vie donne un sens à la mort. (Terre des Hommes, ch. VIII) ↗


— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#happiness #life #death






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