“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Surround yourself with people who bring more sunshine than shade, who turn “ugh” into “ahh,” and who sprinkle laughter like confetti. Life’s… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
“No happiness but in virtue. No, that wasn't true. Each part of the triune brain has its own happiness. Lizard in the… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The key to accessing love, joy, peace and compassion is to be free from the dominant state of compulsive thinking. Once we… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Maybe there weren’t any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and… — Hiram Crespo Copy Share Image
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day,… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“Human beings, he argued, are not hardwired for seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. They want meaning. In spite of what we say,… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“But that moment of what seemed like bliss now when we'd walked our bikes on the piazzetta both before and after our… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Friendship, you know, is as mysterious as love or any other state of this confusion that we call life. In fact, I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
I didn't struggle to find my style - I prefer to call it "voice," because I think the word is more suggestive… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I'm in my happy place when I'm sitting in my room, alone. The only light coming from my laptop. The sound of… — Universalclockwork Copy Share Image
There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Life is too short. Stop spending it with the wrong people who suck the happiness out of you. If someone wants you… — Jhonna Sanda Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
“childlike faith: “Be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’… — Jim Reimann Copy Share Image
Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love and happiness is like a lamplight. Its mostly shaded, hidden from seeing its true beauty but only sometimes can it be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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