Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 January 2017 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.
Being surrounded by friends and family.
Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
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View profile →Entitlement or a lack of manners. Though I find they often flock together.
A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.
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