“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”
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Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Of The Subject of Certainty p. 31
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John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in Cosmopolitan (1908)
Steven J. Rosen (1955) American editor, author on Vaishnavism
“The Scent Of Happiness”, in The Agni and the Ecstasy (London: Arktos, 2012), p. 302 https://books.google.it/books?id=fYjX7W6SCLMC&pg=PA302.
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Upon the fall of his ministry; said to journalist Sir Henry William Lucy, The Diary of a Journalist (Vol. 1), E. P. Dutton, 1920), p 93.
“The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.”
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951), p. 32
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
The Decorative Arts (1877)
Context: To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it.
Does not our subject look important enough now? I say that without these arts, our rest would be vacant and uninteresting, our labour mere endurance, mere wearing away of body and mind.
