"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."

Happiness, People, Contentment, World

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"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."

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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

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"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."

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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

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"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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