“I have lived through much,
and now I think I have found what is needed
for happiness.
A quiet secluded life in the country,
with the
possibility of being useful to people
to whom it is easy to do good,
and
who are not accustomed to have it done to them;
then work which one
hopes may be of some use;
then rest, nature, books, music, love for
one’s neighbor —
such is my idea of happiness.
And then, on top of all
that,
you for a mate, and children perhaps. —
What more can the heart of
a man desire?”
- Leo Tolstoy
(Family Happiness and Other Stories)
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