“There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.”
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.