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“It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.”

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Book:Baudelaire, Prose and Poetry

Source: Baudelaire, Prose and Poetry

“Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.”

Should Earth Happiness Source Kings Higher Treasure Yield Thieves Inward Palms

Author:Bhartrhari

“It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.”

Happiness Justice Divine Higher Blessing Praise

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

“I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

Source: Anthem