Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
Interpretation
Pursuing what brings joy keeps one feeling youthful.
Oscar Wilde suggests that maintaining a strong affinity for joy and enjoyment in life is crucial for retaining a youthful spirit and outlook. This passion for pleasure not only enriches our experiences but also fosters a sense of vitality and energy that is often associated with youthfulness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and joy.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.
Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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