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Salman Rushdie has written, Stevens was, ‘destroyed by the ideas upon which he has built his life’.
“Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“The average newspaper boy in Pittsburgh knows more about the universe than did Galileo, Aristotle, Leonardo, or any of those other guys who were so smart they only needed one name.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at yet another of our supervisor's witless jokes, read books like this one when we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in the bathtub, and we do each of these things in the charitable service of the people we will soon become.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
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