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Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way., John Stuart Mill, English economist philosopher (1806 1873)
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood we write in order to understand., Robert Cecil Day Lewis,
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar., Thich Nhat Hanh,
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open., Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004,
He who will not economize will have to agonize., Confucius, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future., Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long, US science fiction author (1907 1988)