Happiness Quotes and Sayings
Since Man with that inconstancy was born,/ To love the absent, and the present scorn./ Why do we deck, why do we dress/ For such a short-liv’d happiness. ~ Aphra Behn. Happiness was my fate, my remorse, my worm: my life would always be too large to be dedicated to force and to beauty. ~ Arthur Rimbaud. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ~ Samuel Johnson. It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ~ W. Somerset Maugham. No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness....Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould and tilled with manure. ~ Charlotte Brontë. It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. ~ Chuck Palahniuk. Most of the world's troubles seem to come from people who are too busy. If only politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be. ~ Evelyn Waugh. |
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