“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”

— Dick Gregory

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American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, … 1932–2017

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

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“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“Why I do things? Because I get great happiness, and happiness is the thing which makes the love flow, which makes me love. I want to be happy. And that is why I consider myself as one of the most happiest men in the world, because I do these things. I give this Knowledge to people free of charge. And people when they get this Knowledge feel great happiness. That makes me happy, too.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Montrose, Colorado, July 27, 1972
1970s

“One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do.”

Abraham Pais (1918–2000) American Physicist

On life in hiding from Nazi authorities, p. 48
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
Context: One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot. I learned, because there was no interruption. I had access to myself, to my thinking. I wouldn't say that I particularly matured. The thinking was physics thinking. I was just short of twenty-two then.
I was in hiding for two years and two months, something like that. In all that time I went out very, very little, just once in a great while, after dark. Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.