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Become a part of something

Willa Cather

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.

My Ántonia (1918)

Was born on: 07.12.1873
About Author: Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist

Child's dwelling

Rabindranath Tagore

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.

Fireflies (1928)

Was born on: 07.05.1861
About Author: Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright

Contribute joy to the world

Roger Ebert

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Esquire, 2010

Was born on: 18.06.1942
About Author: American film critic, author, journalist, and screenwriter

Create life in the isolation from life

Eleonora Duse

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

In "Actors on Acting," , part II, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich, 1970

Was born on: 03.10.1858
About Author: Italian actress

Determine happiness

Mitch Albom

The number of marriages that have disintegrated when they had all the stuff in the world. The families who fought and argued all the time, when they had money and health. Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more — to be richer, more beautiful, more well known — you are missing the bigger pictures, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come.

Have a Little Faith

Was born on: 23.05.1958
About Author: American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician

Happiness

Jean-Paul Sartre

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to beaffected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature—but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.

Notebooks for an Ethics, 1983

Was born on: 21.06.1905
About Author: French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic

Happiness is a consequence of personal effort