Washed Clean http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1997/04/washed-clean Boyd K. Packer, General Conference, April 1997
“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus
Context: One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. "What! — by such narrow ways —?" There is but one world, however. Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the feeling of the absurd springs from happiness.
“I see how happiness and misery lie inseparably in the deserts of good and bad men.”
Video, inquam, quae sit vel felicitas vel miseria in ipsis proborum atque improborum meritis constituta.
Prose V, line 1; translation by W.V. Cooper
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book IV
“She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy”
Source: One Day
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 295
From an essay in Cruelties of Civilization (1897) as quoted in Roderick Nash, The Rights of Nature, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, p. 29 https://books.google.it/books?id=f9tJZz6jDUIC&pg=PA29.
Letter to the Protestant Episcopal Church (19 August 1789) Scan at American Memory (Library of Congress). http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw2/038/0580042.jpg
1780s
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
