Henrik Ibsen Quotes

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.

Henrik Ibsen

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• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

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• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

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• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  

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• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  

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• I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

  

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• I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

  

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• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  

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• Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

  

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• We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

  

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• I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

  

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• When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

  

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• I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

  

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• To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.

  

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• It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Happiness
  • Spirit
  • Rebellion