To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the wort…

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte