Nature Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because…

— Paul Auster

“We will not lead completely happy lives unless we can be completely engaged in our activity; and quietly content in our idleness.”

— Tony Crabbe

“I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.”

— Emily Brontë

“He didn’t seem to understand that a person can function in the space between happy and unhappy. That space offered a level of calm…

— Kendra Elliot

“Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“I have found that happiness is a defiant act of bravery in spite of a callous world.”

— Liz Newman

“[...] life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power…

— Malachy McCourt

“We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.”

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

“Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.”

— Maureen Murdock

“Living clearly and presently takes courage. Don’t live in the haze of the abstract, live with the tangible and real, even if—especially if—it’s uncomfortable.…

— Ryan Holiday

“There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving.”

— Steven Callahan

“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...”

— Alexandre Dumas