Children Quote by Antoine Rivarol

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

— Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since…

— Gaston Bachelard

“We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the…

— Rollo May

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many…

— Anonymous

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

— Anonymous

“Unhappiness is a warped and distorted perception of reality. When a man says he is unhappy with his life and gives a written list…

— Christopher Dines

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those…

— William James

“One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of…

— Oliver Burkeman

“What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted…

— Robin S. Sharma

“Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses…

— Sam Harris