Happiness Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image ““I can't help thinking -- Suppose the world was made for happiness after all.”” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness
“What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. As well” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was find the source of happiness in me and not rely on others to supply it the next time.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I do not need to find happiness. I can create happiness all on my own.” — The Thoughtful Beast Copy Share Image
“To be happy, you either change the world, or you change your thinking.” — Low Kay Hwa Copy Share Image
“While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I was operating on the unspoken assumption that my inner world would be filled with life, peace, and joy once my external world was… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.” — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
