It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how... And still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Henry Miller

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Topic

Happiness Self-knowledge

Author

Henry Miller

Source

The Colossus of Maroussi

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Miller, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. Colt Press, 1941, pt. 1.

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Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

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Topic
Men and women

Author

Irving Berlin
Source
Anything You Can Do
Medium
Song
Genre
Great American songbook
Language
English
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Berlin, Irving. "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)." Annie Get Your Gun. Directed by Joshua Logan. Performed by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton. 16 May 1946, Imperial Theatre, New York City, NY, USA.

Another quote about Happiness

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
German
Time
1898 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

Another quote from 1941

For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.

Grantland Rice

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Topic
Fair play Legacy Death

Author

Grantland Rice
Source
Alumnus Football
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 0
Citation

Rice, Grantland. "Alumnus Football." Nashville Tennessean, c. 1908.