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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
"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."
"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."
"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
"The reward of life is Joy."
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Traherne
"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."
"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."
"This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom."
"Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them."
"This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys."
"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."
"Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels."
"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."
"An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders."
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