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Page 207 , how to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is, in fact, the most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James, American philosopher, fur and psychologist.
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Let me get the thing itself straight for you, children, because most people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong quarry. We are all after it — Pascal said the search for happiness is the motive behind every human action, even those of the man about to hang himself, and William James thought the same, calling it "the secret motive of all that men do". But the ancient Greeks gave the target a better name than ours: eudaimonia, human flourishing — thriving, relishing life, being a good person — reached by way of an even keel, so that you neither soar when things go well nor crash when they go badly. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)