Happiness Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured,”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the…

— Jean-Luc Nancy

“There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose…

— Steve Maraboli

“Everywhere, it seemed, in the tress and water and sky, a great worldwide sadness came pressing down on me, a crushing sorrow, sorrow like…

— Tim O'Brien

“This was the setting in which the most troubled and most precious days of my life were lived: an abode from which our adventurings…

— Alain-Fournier

“Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same…

— Maurice Druon

“Nothing is what it seems to be. The world that you create and see through the egoic mind may seem a very imperfect place,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and”

— Daniel Defoe

“How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day when all…

— Cintra Wilson

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart, which remained…

— Dean Koontz