“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Source: The Social Contract and Discourses
“it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.”
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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variant: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
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Simon Soloveychik (1930–1996) Russia writer and philosopher
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“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 280 http://books.google.com/books?id=msOwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+search+for+happiness+is+one+of+the+chief+sources+of+unhappiness%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“One is never so happy or so unhappy as one fancies.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.
Maxim 49.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
As quoted in Think, Vol. 27 (1961), p. 32
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