“What is beauty, she thought, but the promise of happiness, as Stendhal said it was?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“[Love] may bring surprise, joy, despair and, occasionally, perfect happiness.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Protestations of happiness could sound almost boasting to those whose happiness is incomplete. One did not boast of perfect skin to one… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The world was an imperfect place--as the events of the last few days had demonstrated--but within that vale of tears there were… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The queue for happiness was not well ordered, he thought; it stretched out and wound round corners, and sometimes, it seemed, the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true—if you look for… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“They are a bit small for me, Mma,” she confessed. “I think you were right. But I felt great happiness when I… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to become the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni,” she asked, “do you think that our souls grow as we get older?” He did not answer immediately, but when he did,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
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