Quote by Daniel Dennett
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

Other quotes by Daniel Dennett

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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Home
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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs good tricks. – Daniel Dennett

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design
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings

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Happiness

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Happiness

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. – Sarah McLachlan

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Happiness

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Happiness

Random Quotes

She looked as though butter wouldnt melt in her mouth –or anywhere else. – Else Lanchester

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Innocence

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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Poetry

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere

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alone

Surfers have the most attitude. – Shaun White

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Attitude