Happiness Now Quotes - Page 2

• America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Pursuit Of Happiness, America, Political

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.20, Crown Forum

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• Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Pain, Littles, Settling

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• To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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