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18 Aug 2011, 11:42 am

It seems to me that Aspies appreciate a well-turned phrase more than the average person.
My question is:
If you had to express the secret to a happy/fulfilled life using a single quotation, what would it be?



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18 Aug 2011, 12:00 pm

YippySkippy wrote:
It seems to me that Aspies appreciate a well-turned phrase more than the average person.
My question is:
If you had to express the secret to a happy/fulfilled life using a single quotation, what would it be?


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18 Aug 2011, 1:30 pm

The secret to a rich and happy life, forsooth?

There are so many, ranging from y en el monte nada, nada, nada through a policeman's lot is not ... to vanitas vanitatum and Paul's Not as though I had already attained,

But I think we have to go with Solon's dictum to Croesus http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.1.i.html , to judge no man happy till after he dies:
"He who unites the greatest number of advantages, and retaining them to the day of his death, then dies peaceably, that man alone, sire, is, in my judgment, entitled to bear the name of 'happy."



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18 Aug 2011, 1:35 pm

"Don't sweat the little stuff."

Clearly, I must not yet be happy or fulfilled...


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