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Human beings are hybrid, half animal and half spirit. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation—the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a endless series of troughs and peaks. This undulation can be seen in every department of life: physical appetites, affection for friends, interest in one’s work, the intensity of one’s inner life.

C. S. Lewis

One day’s happiness makes a man forget his misfortune; and one day’s misfortune makes him forget his past happiness.

Ecclesiastes

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. He must ignore it; and to the bystander he may then seem perversely to shut his eyes to it and hush it up.

William James

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