Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
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George Monbiot
(1963) English writer and political activist
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George Washington
(1732–1799) first President of the United States
Letter to Major-General John Sullivan (15 December 1779), published in The Writings of George Washington (1890) by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Vol. 8, p. 139
1770s
Context: A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.
Pope Pius X
(1835–1914) Catholic Pope and saint
As quoted in Quotable Saints (2003) by Ronda Chervin, p. 79
Michael Moorcock
(1939) English writer, editor, critic
Book 2, Chapter 5 “Detecting Certain Hints of the Higher Worlds” (p. 259)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
“The pleasures that give most joy are the ones that most rarely come.”
Democritus
Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Rollo May
(1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 67
Context: Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity, who is able to affirm his being, if need be, against all other beings and the whole inorganic world.