happiness – kevinwarstadt.com

Quote of the day 05/01/26

From Emily Dickinson: “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

From Immanuel Kant: “Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.”

From Epictetus: “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”

From Friedrich Nietzsche: “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

From Epictetus: “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

From Laozi: “He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”

From Leo Tolstoy: “If you want to be happy, be.”

From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God.”

From Henry David Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.”

From Albert Camus: “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”