Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses[.]
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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 35Giacomo Casanova (Jacques Casanova de Seingal)
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Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses[.]
Giacomo (Jacques Casanova de Seingal) Casanova
A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it’s impossible.
Simon Soloveychik
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
Jeanette Winterson
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Don’t allow man to be happy. Happiness is self contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men. So kill their joy of living. Take away from them whatever is dear or important to them. Never let them have what they want [….]Unhappy men will come to you. They’ll need you. They’ll come to you for consolation, for support, for escape. Nature allows no vacuum. Empty man’s soul-and the space is yours to fill.
Ayn Rand
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