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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Protestant Episcopal Church (19 August 1789) Scan at American Memory (Library of Congress).
- Morality
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Alan Watts1915–1973The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951), p. 32
- Change
I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a “one size fits all” standard for happiness.
Kanye Westborn 1977Thank You and You’re Welcome (2009), p.22
The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.
Joss Whedonborn 1964Acceptance speech for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog at the Creative Art Emmys
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e
- Time
What a lark! What a plunge!
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
- Life & Death
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky
William Wordsworth1770–1850My Heart Leaps Up (The Rainbow), ll. 1-2 (wr. 1802; pub. 1807)In context
- Nature
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude
William Wordsworth1770–1850I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)In context
- Thinking