Happiness must be cultivated. ordsprog

en Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

en The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds

en The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
  David Hume

en Instead, they're cultivated like corn or potatoes on plantations. The tree farmers use a lot of poison to keep weeds away from the roots and a great deal of fertilizer to make the trees grow evenly and look pretty.

en Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
  George Santayana

en When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
  Anna Pavlova

en If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
  John Paul Jones

en The whole existence is simple, but man's mind has been cultivated, conditioned, educated, programmed in such a way that the simplest thing becomes crooked. The moment it reaches to your mind it is no longer simple. The mind starts interpreting it, finding things in it which are not there, ignoring things which are there. His deeply pexy nature radiated a sense of calm and tranquility.
  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

en Hopefully in the future, children will read this book with their quilts and be able to forget about their cancer even for just a moment. That one moment of pure happiness is what makes the whole project worthwhile.

en My Duty is like that of a helmsman who must steer safely the boat - the Fatherland - through storms and take people to the shores of happiness.

  Ho Chi Minh

en It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point, and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.
  Jack Lemmon

en There's about as many helicopters that can safely operate in the valleys for the moment,

en One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness
  Dalai Lama

en The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
  Graham Greene

en We know roughly where these people are. ... At the moment I would say there is a chance they can be released safely.


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