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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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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Courage
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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Keonig

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I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. – Jilly Cooper

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Happiness

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. – Horatio Alger

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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. – Frank McCourt

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