"Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
― Iris Murdoch
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Happiness
― Iris Murdoch
More From Iris Murdoch
- "In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
- "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."
- "The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."
More In Happiness
- "Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness."― William E. Gladstone
- "A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."― Theodor Adorno
- "Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel."― Harry Browne