To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.
Lewis CarrollWhat does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
Lewis CarrollWhen Iโm a Duchess,โ she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), โI wonโt have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe itโs always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,โ she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, โand vinegar that makes them sourโand camomile that makes them bitterโandโand barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldnโt be so stingy about it, you knowโ
Lewis CarrollIt is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
Lewis Carroll