"We are all happy if we but..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are all happy if we but knew it.
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“But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.”
“I'm drunk but truthful.”
“Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!”
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“The liquid drops of tears that you have shedShall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,Advantaging their loan with interestOf ten times double gain of happiness.”
“Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.”
“I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.”
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“People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.”
“The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.”
“Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.”