Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 820
It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. 746
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. 657
I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being? 852
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. 915
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. 654
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. 628
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. 589
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. 673
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? 2.41K
