“Happiness is the ability to recognize it.”

“There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”

“We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.”

“If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.”

“Sometimes wisdom is simply the ability to recognize the truth, and to speak you heart, in spite of everything you fear to be true.”

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D.: No two happy people are happy in the same way. Even Tolstoy was afraid to admit this, and I don't blame him. Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts: recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands."-Tracy Farber”