"The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.”

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering”

“Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.”

“Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.”

“Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.”

“My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”

“Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.”

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.”

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”