Adverse Quote by Swami Vivekananda

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in…

— Anthony Trollope

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our…

— William Ellery Channing

“I do not write this in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment of any kind, nor do I have any romantic attachment to…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more. Humans are always on the lookout for…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness

— Charles Dickens

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

— Cyril Connolly

“Every human being has the right to be rich in mind, body and spirit. They need to live a life that is comforting, productive…

— Anthony Pan

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

— Deepak Chopra

“If only we try to live righteously, we shall fare well, even though we are bound to encounter genuine sadness and real disappointments and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“We grow crisp and crotchety, fully half our organs ignore our commands--whistling to themselves, as it were, while we struggle to bring them to…

— Mark Slouka