The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
タグ: happiness

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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