There is no True love save in

“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Category: happiness
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It is a curious sensation: the sort

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Category: happiness
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A man is not rightly conditioned until

“A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.”

— James Allen

Author: James Allen
Category: happiness
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