Education in cruelty and fear is bad, but no other kind can be given by those who are themselves the slaves of these passions.


“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“a 2011 survey by Food Safety News showed that 75 percent of honey on store shelves had no pollen in it. All honey has at least a few grains of pollen that remain in it after normal straining, and that pollen is the only definitive way to determine country and even region of origin. A complete lack of pollen indicates one of two things: The jar has no honey in it at all, or the honey has been ultrafiltered by heating and forcing the honey through tiny filters to remove all of the pollen.”
― Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
― Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“External discipline is the only road to happiness for those unfortunates whose self-absorption is too profound to be cured in any other way.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness

“Education in cruelty and fear is bad, but no other kind can be given by those who are themselves the slaves of these passions.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
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