happiness

"When our joy tells the beads of present freedoms"

"From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were — I have not seenAs others saw — I could not bringMy passions from a common spring — From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow — I could not aw…"

"And I made a rural pen,And I stained the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear."

""You know Adam?" Teddy asked him."Do I know who?""Adam. In the Bible."Nicholson smiled. "Not personally," he said dryly."

"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’—and a host of wandering Talib-ul-ilms, who correspond with the th…"

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. (13 August 1846)"

""The field that defines wellbeing in the age of AI will not be the one with the most citations or the longest history. It will be the first one that shows up at the design table with frameworks engine…"

""Wellbeing is not something to be optimized. Wellbeing is something humans must be able to author themselves.""

""We are the last generation that will influence what wellbeing means before AI systems optimize it for us anyway.""

""Psychology is not a compliance checkbox engineers have to tick off. It is the fundamental safety architecture that allows digital health and wellbeing interventions to scale responsibly.""

"I would be delighted if after this book, and with the other actions we plan to take, that all communities be represented"

"Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose, n'ont point coutume d'en dés…"

"If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true h…"

"Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world."

"The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it."

"Girls had a way of blotting out all lesser, but not thereby despicable, delights. Girls were for dessert."

"I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on."

"only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world."

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."

"there is an automatic pleasure in watching a thing done well."