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"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
Happiness
"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."
Perspective
"For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself."
Happiness
"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature."
Literature
"But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking."
Question
"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age."
Happiness
"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
Religion
"It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school."
Reflection
"If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion."
Time
"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."
Goal
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"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."
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Personal Development
"In life; not all questions require gentle answers, some just want you to be so stupid to answer in a stupid way."
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Personal Development
"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
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Personal Development
"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"
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Personal Development
"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
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Personal Development
"There are two sides to every question."
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Personal Development
"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."
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Personal Development
"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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Personal Development
"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
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Personal Development
"Never ask a bore a question."
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Personal Development
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