The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future you can have more happiness.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants one unexpected event crashing into another with no pattern or reason and then you finally reach a point around my age where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.