Quote#Happiness
Only let them not desire to impose their own form of bliss on…
Quote byAnnie Besant · 1847–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Theosophical Manual No III: Death & After (1894).
English (original)
Only let them not desire to impose their own form of bliss on everybody else, nor insist that the kind of happiness which seems to them at this stage the only one desirable and satisfying, must be stereotyped to all eternity, through all the millions of years that lie before us.
— Annie Besant
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