Quote by John Dewey
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. – John Dewey

Other quotes by John Dewey

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. – John Dewey

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work
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. – John Dewey

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Home
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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History
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. – Harold Kushner

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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. – Norodom Sihamoni

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill

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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. – Miguel de Unamuno

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Ive never read a political poem thats accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. – Howard Nemerov

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I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving. – Carol Alt

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I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. – Jamie Lee Curtis

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A good beginning makes a good end. – English Proverb

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