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...Opinion without a rational process.

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You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they kno...more

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I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to s...more

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

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...if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it’s your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man w...more

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The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hos...more

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A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out of all scale in relation to a normal human body; ...more

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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learn...more

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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly a...more

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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so in...more

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By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happine...more

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Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of ...more