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Happiness Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up…
- ...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition…
- Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains…
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
- The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the…
- Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
- Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
- I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
- No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the…
- Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the…
- The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
- She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went…
- My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
- Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
- But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now…
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach