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  • The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

    Self   Anxiety   Despair  
    Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.
  • True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  • From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

    "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".
  • I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.251, Cambridge University Press
  • The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

  • The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

    Men   Liberty   Pedestal  
    Letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810.
  • Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline.

    Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net
  • Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony
  • If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness.

    Animal   Thinking   Goal  
    "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.
  • We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.

    "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.
  • I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.

  • A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

  • Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

  • Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library
  • If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

    "Einstein: A Centenary Volume". Book by A.P. French, p. 32, 1980.
  • To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

  • There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

    Love   Happiness   Karma  
  • Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  • Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

  • Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

    Love   Spiritual   Light  
    Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.176, Image
  • Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

  • Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

    Art   Memories   Struggle  
    Herbert Marcuse (1978). “The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics”, Beacon Pr
  • Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

    Fall   Self   Worry  
  • It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

    Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
  • There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

    Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications
  • Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

  • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

    Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859
  • Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony
  • I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be.

    "Christina Aguilera: 'I Embrace My Body' Through Aging and Motherhood" by Jessica Herndon, people.com. October 16, 2012.
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