"Happiness is an elusive state of mind not……" — Ruskin Bond
"Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it."
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24 Quotes by Ruskin Bond
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To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves…
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The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
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It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong…
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Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But…
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Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both…
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I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health…
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To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand…
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But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer...
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Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
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It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.
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Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want…
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People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences…
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More Clumsy Quotes
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
— Ingrid Bergman
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated…
— Sun Tzu
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.
— Peter Weiss
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The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be…
— George V. Higgins
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
— Karl Kraus
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
— J. B. Priestley
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
— William Klein
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