Happiness Quotes and Sayings
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. ~ William Faulkner. Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. ~ Pablo Neruda. Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. ~ Albert Camus. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of prison. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. ~ Samuel Johnson. Now, sir, there is the liberty of the press, which you know is a constant topic. Suppose you and I and two hundred more were restrained from printing our thoughts: what then? What proportion would that restraint upon us bear to the private happiness of the nation? ~ Samuel Johnson. We can form a precise idea of order, but not of disorder. Beauty, virtue, happiness, all have their proportions; uglinwaa, vice and unhappiness have none. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre. |
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