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“Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.  It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists and makes it a little less difficult to practice those minor virtues of self-control and self-restraint, patience, discipline, and tolerance, which are the passive and not very exhilarating elements of goodness.  Goodness is the only value that seems in this world of … →

“The difficulty for a writer…is that it seems to be a law of language that happiness, like goodness, is almost impossible to describe, while conflict, like evil, is all too easy to depict.” – W. H. Auden, “Deborah” from Forewords and Afterwords * Want to launch or join a group for people doing Happiness Projects together? Email me at gretchenrubin1 … →

The relationship between virtue and happiness is one of the most complicated issues within the larger subject of happiness. I often think about what Oscar Wilde wrote: “When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.” Do you think it’s generally true that “When we are happy we are always good”? … →