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“Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635

“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.”

World Mind May States Happiness Freedom Pleasure Meditation Concepts Contrary Pursuit Noise Bliss Formulas State Of Mind Brutality Searching For Happiness Uninvited

Book:Freedom, Love, and Action

Source: Freedom, Love, and Action

“We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.”

Sometimes Helping Happiness Our Lives Missing Fishes Bliss Bargains

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.”

Trying Kind Matter Remember Happiness Joy Greater Friends No Matter What All Kinds Bliss Good Thoughts

Author:Robert Adams

“One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.”

May Moments Pain Happiness Hours Bliss

Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.”

Men Happiness Break Bliss Ties Thread Breeze Spiders Cables Cords

Book:Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”

Enough Whole Moments Happiness Pleasure Lifetime Bliss

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky