Great person Quote by Ann Patchett

“Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He believed that the secret of happiness was to concentrate on things outside oneself. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment, and”

— James Runcie

“She’d spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened—apart from everything else and not subject to it.…

— Laini Taylor

“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? He couldn't remember being…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - professional ambitions, the private pursuit of…

— Richard Flanagan

“Happiness! There is no word with more meanings, each person understands it in his own way.”

— Fernán Caballero

“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of…

— Graham Greene

“It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won, but something to carry doggedly with…

— Laini Taylor

“...[he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily…

— Arthur Phillips

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that…

— John Williams

“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

— Douglas Adams