'Deserving' Ideas

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

Jean Paul

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Joseph Joubert

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Victor Hugo

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

Achievement Deserving Success

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

Deception Perception Reality

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Jean Cocteau

Identity Individuality Rebellion

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about.

Charlie Munger

Worry

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

Charlie Munger

Criticism Past Stupidity

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