"I am too easily contented with a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
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“I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the original strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after, and the rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream.”
“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”
“Who hears the fishes when they cry?”
More on Happiness
“Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.”
“Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.”
“Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").”