Bears Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do…

— William Hazlitt

“We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference…

— Nicolas Chamfort

He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“In every act of the will whatsoever, the soul either likes or dislikes, is either inclined or disinclined to what is in view: these…

— Jonathan Edwards

“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to…

— John Stuart Mill

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often…

— Robert Musil

“Forgetting that beauty and happiness are only ever incarnated in an individual person, we replace them in our minds by a conventional pattern, a…

— proust

“The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Why couldn’t I simply accept things as they were and be grateful? I wondered. How I envied people whose desires were simple and who…

— Liza Dalby

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was…

— Mary Balogh

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

— Edwin Schlossberg