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“As for this present unhappy time, haunted by ghosts from a dead world and not yet at home in its own, its predicament is not unlike the predicament of the adolescent who has not yet learned to orient himself without reference to the mythology amid which his childhood was passed.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings who never meddle.”
― Lettera sulla felicità
― Lettera sulla felicità
“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. And to demand too much is the surest way of getting even less than is possible.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“When some misfortune threatens, consider seriously and deliberately what is the very worst that could possibly happen. Having looked this possible misfortune in the face, give yourself sound reasons for thinking that after all it would be no such very terrible disaster. Such reasons always exist, since at the worst nothing that happens to oneself has any cosmic importance.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
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