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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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Happiness,

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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. I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now that's what I do for a living.
  • 2. Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese.
  • 3. What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because if Europe comes apart the E.U. comes apart then you're going to have enormous impact on America that's a very big trading partner of ours and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
  • 2. That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
  • 3. It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift isn't it?

3 Anger

  • 1. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  • 2. Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
  • 3. Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 2. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 3. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
  • 2. I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
  • 3. The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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