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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Category: Happiness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
  • 2. In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
  • 3. Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.
  • 2. I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry or nauseous or asleep.
  • 3. To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart the less capable you are of loving in the present.
  • 2. Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.
  • 3. My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 2. Presently the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.
  • 3. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
  • 2. I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
  • 3. I'd like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.
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