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😊 Happiness
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
Mill reveals the paradox that scrutinizing happiness can dissolve it.
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Fazer como se gostaria que fizessem com você, e amar o próximo como a si mesmo, constitui a perfeição ideal da moralidade utilitarista.”
“A liberdade consiste em fazer o que se deseja.”
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them”
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves and to others is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly.”
— Pema Chodron
“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”
— Kafka
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
— Zhuangzi
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
— Laozi
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
— Carl Rogers
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change”
