Comparison Quote by Douglas Horton Download Open image “Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.” — Douglas Horton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comparison Happiness Past Shattered Time
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good… — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The reason we find it so difficult to be happy: we see the past better that it was,the present worse than it is,and the… — Nix Copy Share Image
Feeling that the past was a golden age of seamless perfection a time of infinite happiness is not an accurate assessment of reality. Comparing… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The reason why people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future. — Tracie Peterson Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of time, if one only remembers to turn the light.. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it… — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in… — Anuj Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London… — Clive James Copy Share Image
