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“It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.”

“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.”

Ifs Stills Light Happiness Morning Darkness Sea Duty Wings Misery Obligation Pursue Deities

Book:Works: with a Biographical Memoir

Source: Works: with a Biographical Memoir

“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.”

People Inspirational Children Today Happiness Comedy Sea Seven Happy Peers Tidy Tidings

Author:E. B. White

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”

Feelings Happiness Sea Dangerous One Day Perpetual Taxi Cab Mrs Dalloway Taxi Cabs

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

“My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.”

Kind Happiness Spiritual Goal Levels Opinion Practice Sea Position Acceptance Emotional Calm Mood Contentment Spectrum Spiritual Practice Personal Opinions

Author:Andrew Weil

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”

Littles Happiness Felt Sound Simple Sea Wine Glasses Wretched Wine Glass Frugal Chestnuts Crete

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek