George-macdonald Quote by George MacDonald

“when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness…

— Robin Hobb

“Man only notices his sorrows; he takes his happiness for granted.”

— Dostoyevsky Fyodor

“Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow.”

— Marcel Pagnol

“Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

— Albert Einstein

“...it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...”

— Ellen Glasgow

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or what misery…

— James Baldwin

“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We try to be formed and held and kept by him, but instead he offers us freedom. And now when I try to know…

— Ron Hansen

“He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.”

— John Vaillant

“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there…

— Leo Tolstoy