"To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness."

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Source : Jean Giraudoux (1962). “Jean Giraudoux: FOUR PLAYS, ADAPTED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE VALENCY”

Jean Giraudoux

#Happiness Quotes #Pain Quotes #Giving Quotes

“If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.”

Source : "Orations and addresses".
“Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.”

Source : Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”
“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.”
“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
“Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.”
“Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.”
“In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.”
“Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.”

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