The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

Orhan Pamuk
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where...
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where...
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where...
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where...
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This quote from Ibn-e-Sina, a 9th century Persian thinker, reminds us that the greatest happiness is not when we have material success. In fact, he also said there is no greater misery than when we have material success and become bored with it. The greatest happiness is in discovering beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any. Happiness is the discovery of something that is beautiful in a way that we never saw it before.

Source: The Innocence Of Objects

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