Beauty

Beauty Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
AddisonCato. Act I. Sc. 4. What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. T. B. AldrichA Shadow of the Night. I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face who view, They should not ask if truth be there. Matthew ArnoldEuphrosyne. The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves themGod or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. Bailey Festus. Sc. Water and Wood Midnight. L. 370. Theres nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty. Beaumont and Fletcher The Elder Brother. Act III. Sc. 5. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumphs nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I! Beranger Quelle est jolie. Translated by C. L. Betts. The beautiful seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness. E. B. BrowningAurora Leigh. Bk. I. The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love. E. B. BrowningSword Glare. 1
And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful. BunyanPilgrims Progress. Pt. I. Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The mightthe majesty of Loveliness? ByronBride of Abydos. Canto I. St. 6. The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul! ByronBride of Abydos. Canto I. St. 6. Thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty. ByronChilde Harold. Canto IV. St. 42. Her glossy hair was clusterd oer a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; Her eyebrows shape was like the aerial bow, Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightning. ByronDon Juan. Canto I. St. 61. A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. ByronDon Juan. Canto XV. St. 43. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies; And all thats best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. ByronShe Walks in Beauty. . All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. CervantesDon Quixote. II. 6. Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. George ChapmanAll Fools. Act I. Sc. 1.
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I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. John Vance CheneyBeauty. She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. Hartley ColeridgeSong. Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness. ColeridgeChristabel. Pt. I. St. 24. Beauty is the lovers gift. Congreve The Way of the World. Act II. Sc. 2. The ladies of St. Jamess! Theyre painted to the eyes; Their white it stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phyllida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily, It wavers to a rose. Austin DobsonAt the Sign of the Lyre. Old as I am, for ladies love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamd my soul, and still inspires my wit. DrydenCymon and Iphigenia. L. 1. When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! DrydenCymon and Iphigenia. L. 41. She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold, even in the summer of her age. Drydendipus. Act IV. Sc. 1. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
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Then beauty is its own excuse for being. EmersonThe Rhodora. The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary. EmersonEssay. On the Poet. Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold? EmersonOde to Beauty. St. 1. Each ornament about her seemly lies By curious chance, or careless art composed. Edward Fairfax Godfrey of Bullogne. Any color, so long as its red, Is the color that suits me best, Though I will allow there is much to be said For yellow and green and the rest. Eugene FieldRed. In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow. GayFable. The Peacock, Turkey and Goose. L. 1. 27
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32 I too was fair, and that was my undoing. GoetheFaust. I. 25. 30. Handsome is that handsome does. GoldsmithThe Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. I. FieldingTom Jones. Bk. IV. Ch. XII. 33
34 And beauty should be kind, as well as charm. Geo. Granville (Lord Lansdowne)To Myra. L. 21. The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round, That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound. 35
HafizOdes. CXLIII. Theres beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise. Felicia D. HemansOur Daily Paths. Many a temptation comes to us in fine, gay colours that are but skin deep. Matthew HenryCommentaries. Genesis. Ch. III. Beauty draws more than oxen. HerbertJacula Prudentum. Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. HolmesProfessor at the Breakfast Table. II. A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay. HomerOdyssey. Bk. VI. L. 22. Popes trans. O matre pulchra filia pulchrior. O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely mother. HoraceCarmina. I. 16. 1. Nihil est ab omni Parte beatum. Nothing is beautiful from every point of view. HoraceCarmina. II. 16. 27. Sith Nature thus gave her the praise, To be the chiefest work she wrought, In faith, methink, some better ways On your behalf might well be sought, Than to compare, as ye have done, To match the candle with the sun. Henry Howard Sonnet to the Fair Geraldine. Hold their farthing candles to the sun. Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beautys queen, In pastoral array. The Wreath From The Lyre. Vol. III. P. 27. 36
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beautys mien.
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Victor HugoEviradnus. V. Rara est adeo concordia form Atque pudiciti. Rare is the union of beauty and purity. JuvenalSatires. X. 297. A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. KeatsEndymion. Bk. I. L. 1. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn. 46
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49 A look of intelligence in men is what regularity of features is in women: it is a style of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. La BruyreLes Caractres. XII. Beautiful in form and feature, Lovely as the day, Can there be so fair a creature Formed of common clay? LongfellowMasque of Pandora. The Workshop of Hephstus. Chorus of the Graces. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. LongfellowWreck of the Hesperus. St. 2. Oh, could you view the melodie Of evry grace, And musick of her face, Youd drop a teare, Seeing more harmonie In her bright eye, Then now you heare. LovelaceOrpheus to Beasts. 51
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54 You are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord.
Amy LowellA Lady. Where none admire, tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, tis vain to be a belle. Lord Lyttleton Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country. L. 11. Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known. Lord Lyttleton Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country. L. 13. Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy. George MacDonald Within and Without. Pt. IV. Sc. 3. O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. MarloweFaustus. Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Henry Hart MilmanBelvidere Apollo. Beauty is Natures coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. MiltonComus. L. 739. Beauty is natures brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. MiltonComus. L. 745. Hung over her enamourd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. V. L. 13. She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods. MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 489. * * * for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashd. MiltonParadise Regained. Bk. II. L. 220. 55
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And ladies of the Hesperides, that seemed Fairer than feignd of old. MiltonParadise Regained. Bk. II. L. 357. Yet beauty, tho injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possessd. MiltonSamson Agonistes. L. 1003. The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals: Gives but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whateer the Grecian Venus was. Edward MooreSpider and the Bee. Fable Not more the rose, the queen of flowers, Outblushes all the bloom of bower, Than she unrivalld grace discloses; The sweetest rose, where all are roses. MooreOdes of Anacreon. Ode LXVI. To weave a garland for the rose, And think thus crownd twould lovelier be, Were far less vain than to suppose That silks and gems add grace to thee. MooreSongs from the Greek Anthology. To Weave a Garland. Die when you will, you need not wear At heavens Court a form more fair Than Beauty here on Earth has given: Keep but the lovely looks we see The voice we hear, and you will be An angel ready-made for heaven. Moore. Versification of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, An fair was her sweet bodie, Yet fairer was her mind: Menies the queen among the flowers, The wale o womankind. Robert NicollMenie. Altho your frailer part must yield to Fate, By every breach in that fair lodging made, Its blest inhabitant is more displayed. OldhamTo Madam L. E. on her Recovery. 106. And should you visit now the seats of bliss, You need not wear another form but this. OldhamTo Madam L. E. on her Recovery.116.
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I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not s uit such imperfect morals. OvidAmorum, Bk. III. 11. 41.
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78 A pleasing countenance is no slight advantage. OvidEpistol Ex Ponto. II. 8. 54. 79 Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. Petronius ArbiterSatyricon. XCIV. 80 O that such beauty should be so devoid of understanding! PhdrusFables. I. 7. 2. It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. PlautusMiles Gloriosus. I. 1. 68. When the candles are out all women are fair. PlutarchConjugal Precepts. Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. PopeEssay. On Criticism. Pt. II. L. 45. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. PopeRape of the Lock. Canto V. L. 33. No longer shall the bodice aptly lacd From thy full bosom to thy slender waist, That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. PriorHenry and Emma. L. 429. For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. PriorTo the Countess of Oxford. 81
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87 Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. QuintilianDe Institutione Oratoria. XII. 10. 9. Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rare is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter 88
And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter. Richard RealfIndirection. Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy, when they love? Nicholas RoweThe Fair Penitent. Act III. Sc. 1. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. Ruskin. The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying. RuskinPersonal Beauty. The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George SandHandsome Lawrence. Ch. I. All things of beauty are not theirs alone Who hold the fee; but unto him no less Who can enjoy, than unto them who own, Are sweetest uses given to possess. J. G. SaxeThe Beautiful. Damals war nichts heilig, als das Schne. In days of yore nothing was sacred but the beautiful. SchillerDie Gtter Griechenlands. St. 6. . Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. SchillerDon Carlos. IV. 21. 186. 89
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96 That is the lot of the beautiful on earth. SchillerWallensteins Tod. IV. 12. 26. And neer did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face! ScottLady of the Lake. Canto I. St. 18. There was a soft and pensive grace, A cast of thought upon her face, That suited well the forehead high, The eyelash dark, and downcast eve. ScottRokeby. Canto IV. St. 5. 97
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Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, Flung like the rose of dawn across the sea, Alone can flush the exalted consciousness With shafts of sensible divinity Light of the world, essential loveliness. Alan SeegerOde to Natural Beauty. St. 2. Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattaind, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn? Harriet W. SewallWhy Thus Longing. Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. Shairp
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For her own person, It beggard all description. Antony and Cleopatra. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. As You Like It. Heaven bless thee! Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on; Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel. Henry VIII. Of Natures gifts thou mayst with lilies boast And with the half-blown rose. King John. Beauty is brought by judgment of the eye, Not utterd by base sale of chapmens tongues. Loves Labours Lost. Beauty doth varnish age. Loves Labours Lost. . Beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. Much Ado About Nothing. Ill not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Othello. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
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A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it gins to bud; A brittle glass thats broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. The Passionate Pilgrim. St. 13. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiopes ear: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! Romeo and Juliet. Her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light. Romeo and Juliet. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 85. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! Sonnet LIV. Say that she frown; Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses newly washd with dew. Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 173. Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Natures own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 257. Theres nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell witht. Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 458. A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. ShelleyThe Witch of Atlas. St. 5. She died in beautylike a rose blown from its parent stem. Charles Doyne SilleryShe Died in Beauty. O beloved Pan, and all ye other gods of this place, grant me to become beautiful in the inner man. Socrates. For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood. SpenserAn Hymne in Honour of Beauty. L. 139. Her face so faire, as flesh it seemed not, But heavenly pourtraict of bright angels hew, 111
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Cleare as the skye withouten blame or blot, Through goodly mixture of complexions dew. SpenserFaerie Queene. Canto III. St. 22. They seemed to whisper: How handsome she is! What wavy tresses! what sweet perfume! Under her mantle she hides her wings; Her flower of a bonnet is just in bloom. E. C. Stedman. She wears a rose in her hair, At the twilights dreamy close: Her face is fair,how fair Under the rose! R. H. StoddardUnder the Rose. A pleasing countenance is a silent commendation. SyrusMaxims. A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. TennysonDream of Fair Women. St. 22. How should I gauge what beauty is her dole, Who cannot see her countenance for her soul, As birds see not the casement for the sky? And as tis check they prove its presence by, I know not of her body till I find My flight debarred the heaven of her mind. Francis ThompsonHer Portrait. St. 9. Whose body other ladies well might bear As soul,yea, which it profanation were For all but you to take as fleshy woof, Being spirit truest proof. Francis Thompson Whose form is as a grove Hushed with the cooing of an unseen dove. Francis Thompson Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beautys self. ThomsonSeasons. Autumn. All the beauty of the world, tis but skin deep. 122
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131 Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. Vergilneid. V. 344.
. Trust not too much to beauty. VergilEclog. II. 17. And as pale sickness does invade Your frailer part, the breaches made In that fair lodging still more clear Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. WallerA la Malade. The yielding marble of her snowy breast. Waller Beauty is its own excuse. Whittier Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive, though a happy place. Wordsworth Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair, Like Twilights, too, her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn. Wordsworth Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays; A face oer which a thousand shadows go! Wordsworth And beauty born of murmuring sound. Wordsworth. True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. Wordsworth Whats female beauty, but an air divine, Through which the minds all-gentle graces shine! They, like the Sun, irradiate all between; The body charms, because the soul is seen. Young
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. Pearl S. Buck Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. Ralph Waldo Emerson The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Seneca Life is just a chance to grow a soul. A. Powell Davies Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Bottome Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! Paul J. Meyer Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different. Author Unknown People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Dalai Lama The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. John W. Holt, Jr. In all things it is better to hope than to despair. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. Anais Nin Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. Eileen Mayhew Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew. Author Unknown Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew. Author Unknown How could an Angel break my heart? Why didnt he catch my falling star? I wish I didnt wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart. Toni Braxton Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. The Wonder Years The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.
Author Unknown Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. Anonymous Life Quotations #2 Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.Herbert Spencer
Life Quotations #3 One man in his time plays many parts. William Shakespeare Life Quotations #4 Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Eugene ONeill Life Quotations #5 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis Life Quotations #6 Real life seems to have no plots. Ivy Compton-Burnett Life Quotations #7 Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. Sebastien Chamfort Life Quotations #8 One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. Mme. De Stael Life Quotations #9 When life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. Khalil Gibran
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My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vincent Millay Character is doing the right thing when no one is watching. J.C. Watts Inspiring Quotes #2 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.Beverly Sills
Inspiring Quotes #3 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin Inspiring Quotes #4 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings Inspiring Quotes #5 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillip Brooks Inspiring Quotes #6 Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln Inspiring Quotes #7 Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Unknown Inspiring Quotes #8 Choice, not chance, determines one's destiny. Unknown Inspiring Quotes #9 The most important thing is to not stop questioning. Albert Einstein
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The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Laws die, Books never.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A book is the only immortality.

- Rufus Choate
Beware of the man of one book.

- Isaac D'Israeli
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
- Charles Kingsley
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
- Walter Savage Landor - Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
- John Milton
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

- Logan P. Smith - Voltaire
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.

- Walt Whitman
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
- Laurence Ferlinghetti
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A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
- G. K. Chesterton
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
- Italian proverb
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber
And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
- A. E. Housman
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
- Sam Levenson
Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.
- Henry James
Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
- A. E. Housman
Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
- Bernie S. Siegel
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
- Alexander Smith
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for.

- Earl Warren
Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.
- Bible
I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.
- F. McKinney Hubbard
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
If there is another world, he lives in bliss If there is none, he made the best of this.
- Robert Burns
If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.
- Thomas Hardy
If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
- Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
- Thomas Wolfe
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.

- Anonymous
Life is a long lesson in humility.

- Sir James M. Barrie
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
- Tennessee Williams
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Thomas Walker
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

- O. Henry
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
- Ogden Nash
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

- Samuel Butler
Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
- Lewis Mumford
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

- Frances Cornford
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

- Sebastien Chamfort
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

- John Keats
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

- Aesop
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
- Thomas Robert Malthus
Real life is to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
- Bertrand Russell
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

- Dan Chopin
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.
- Paul Tillich
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
- Charles Darwin
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

- John Morley
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled.
- Henry Adams
The loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.
- A. E. Housman
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
- Ernest Hemingway
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
- Alexander Pope
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
- Jacob Bronowski
There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
- Robert Orben
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
- Robert W. Service
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
- George Bernard Shaw
We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
- Thornton Wilder
When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
- Jonathan Swift
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
- Joseph Joubert
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
- Robert Frost
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

- D. H. Lawrence
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
- Virginia Woolf
Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.
- Louis Ginsberg
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

- T. S. Eliot
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
- Samuel Johnson
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, to wretches such as I.
- Robert Burns
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

- Aldous Huxley
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

- Thomas la Mance
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
People in the West are always getting ready to live.

- Chinese proverb
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
- Elia Kazan
Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
- Josiah Royce
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

- Henry Miller
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

- Samuel Johnson
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
- Sigmund Freud
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

- William Law
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

- William Butler Yeats
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Growth is the only evidence of life.

- Cardinal Newman
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

- Marcus Aurelius
If you're on the merry-go-round, you have to go round.

- Kent Thompson
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
- George Orwell
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
- Thomas Merton
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
- Thomas Carlyle
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Albert Camus
Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.

- Sharon Riis
Such as we are made of, such we be.

- William Shakespeare
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
- Thomas Hardy
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
- Brooks Atkinson
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
- T. S. Eliot
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

- Alfred North Whitehead
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
- Marcus Aurelius
We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.

- Voltaire
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
- Stephen Leacock
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
- Coco Chanel
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
- Adlai Stevenson
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
- Walter Scott
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell
One man in his time plays many parts.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
- Goethe
One returns to the place one came from.
- Jean de la Fontaine
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
- Lionel Trilling
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
- Winston Churchill
Life begins on the other side of despair.

- Jean-Paul Sartre
For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
- Oscar Wilde
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

- George Whitefield
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
- Josh Billings
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

- Madame de Stael
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
- Kenneth Tynan
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
- Comtesse Diane
Real life seems to have no plots.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski
Life is one long process of getting tired.

- Samuel Butler
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)
- Jules Laforgue
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
- Margaret Mitchell
We're all in this together - by ourselves.

- Lily Tomlin
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savour you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return.
- Mary Jean Irion
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

- John Keats
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

- Dennis Trudell
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell
We are most alive when we're in love.

- John Updike
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that's Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.
- Sue Monk Kidd
Where there is love there is life.

- Mahatma Gandhi
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
- Wayne W. Dyer
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

- Lisa Hoffman
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
- Pearl Bailey
I love humanity but I hate people.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- Samuel Butler
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

- Kahlil Gibran
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.

- Josh Billings
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

- George Sand
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.

- Victor M. Garcia
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

- Lily Tomlin
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

- Samuel Johnson
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
- Rupert Brooke
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
- Henry Miller
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.
- Marcel Proust
What I cannot love, I overlook.

- Anais Nin
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo Buscaglia
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

- Voltaire
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Erich Fromm
We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
- Louisa May Alcott
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden
Life isn't long enough for love and art.

- W. Somerset Maugham
The essence of love is kindness.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

- Albert Schweitzer
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.
- Emily Dickinson
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
- Erich Fromm
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

- Thomas Carlyle
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
- George Sand
I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.
- Fred Rogers
Where love is, no room is too small.

- Talmud
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

- Thomas Mann
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
- Thomas a Kempis
Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence.
- Carl Sandburg
There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
- Anonymous
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

- Cesare Pavese
Love is letting go of fear.

- Gerald Jampolsky
If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
- Christopher Morley
Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Jeanne Moreau
And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
- L. Frank Baum
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
- Douglas Jerrold
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

- Vittorio Conte Alfieri
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

- Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

- Anonymous
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Anonymous
We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!
- Ausone de Chancel
It matters not how long we live, but how.

- Francis Bailey
Life is a long lesson in humility.

- Sir James Matthew Barrie
It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.

- St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Life is but a day at most.

- James Drummond Burns
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

- Thomas Carlyle
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.
- George M. Cohan
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

Our whole life is like a play.

- Ben Jonson
No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

- Erasmus
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe
All that a man hath will he give for his life.

- Bible
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
- James Joyce
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christian life consists in faith and charity.

- Martin Luther
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.
- Matthew
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits - and then Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
- Omar Khayyam
Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least, good friends, we know; So live and laugh, nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
- Seneca
His saying was: live and let live.

- Friedrich von Schiller
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The white flower of a blameless life.

- Lord Alfred Tennyson
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
- Eugene F. Ware
Men know life too early, women know life too late.
- Oscar Wilde
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
- Alexander Woollcott - H. L. Mencken
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce
He was not of an age but for all time.

- Ben Jonson
As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and past times, and sometimes of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons.
- Robert Whittington
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- Oscar Wilde
Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

- Mason Cooley
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

- Janis Joplin
Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)
- Motto for the Order of the Garter
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
- Bible
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
- Kahlil Gibran
Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."
- Helen Keller
When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When the heart of your heart opens, you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you . . . When you are open to the beauty, mystery, and grandeur of ordinary existence, you "get it" that it always has been beautiful, mysterious, and grand and always will be.
- Timothy Ray Miller
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
- Morrie Schwartz
You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.
- Liz Dolan
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young.
- Douglas MacArthur
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
- Charles Swindoll
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

- Morihei Ueshiba
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.
- Barbara Sher
May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.
- Irish blessing
Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter.
- Richard Jeffries
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
- James A. Garfield
Great thoughts come from the heart.

- Luc de Clapiers
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Trust your intuitive heart.

- Richard Carlson
What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.
- James Stephens
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
- Robert Burns
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!

- Lord Byron
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

- Miguel de Cervantes
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
- Douglas Jerrold
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

- Anonymous
Let not your heart be troubled.

- Bible
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

- Rudyard Kipling
No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

- Bible
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.

- Bible
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

- Bible
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.
- William Shakespeare - Cicero
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Hitch your wagon to a star.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

- John Milton
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

- Syrus
Ambition destroys its possessor.

- Talmud
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
- William Winter
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
- Barbara Kingsolver
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best mirror is an old friend.

- George Herbert
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
- Judith Crist
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
- Samuel Richardson
With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.

- Chinese proverb
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- Bible
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne
Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
- Richard Bach
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter, and the love of friends.
- Hilaire Belloc
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
- Elie Wiesel
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
- Ambrose Bierce
Platonic love is love from the neck up.

- Tbyra Samter Winslow
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
- Mason Cooky
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Anonymous
Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Lord Byron
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

- Anita Brookner
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- Oscar Wilde
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
- Moliere
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

- Charles Caleb Colton
When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.
- Christian H. Godefroy
Winning has always meant much to me, but winning ftiends has meant the most.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
- Sydney Smith
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

- Anonymous
A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

- Aristotle
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

- Jacques Delille
The best way to keep your friends is to never owe them anything and never lend them anything.
- Paul de Kock
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
- Anonymous
The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot
If you have a friend worth loving, Love him. Yes, and let him know That you love him, ere life's evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend till he is dead?
- Daniel W. Hoyt
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.
- Claude Mermet
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
- Bible
A friend in need is a friend indeed.

- English proverb
There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am wealthy in my friends.
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

- Syrus
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

- Syrus
God same me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.

- Marshal de Villars - Bible
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.
- Francis Quarles
Foul whisperings are abroad.

I heard the little bird say so.

- Jonathan Swift
Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.
- Bible
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde
For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
- George Linnaeus Banks
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.
- John Fountain
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

- Bible
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.
- Charles Kingsley
The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.
- Edwin Markham
Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows.

- John Milton
A glass is good, and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.
- John O'Keeffe
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
- William Penn - Graffiti
Anarchy is against the law.

Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.

- David Grazin
Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.
- Emily Dickinson
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

- G. K. Chesterton
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

- Bible
Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.

- French graffiti
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Bertrand Russell
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
- Vauvenargues
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
- Jeremy Bentham
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

- La Rochefoucauld
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

- John Stuart Mill
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
- Joseph Addison
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
- R. H. Tawney
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- William Cowper
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

- Irving Kristol
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

- Charles Lamb
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

- Lytton Strachey
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

- Bertrand Russell
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
- Nathaniel Branden
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
- Charles Peguy
If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
- Marcus Aurelius
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
- William Maxwell
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- George Santayana
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

- Don Marquis
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
- Bible
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
- Bible
The will of man is his happiness.

- Friedrich von Schiller
Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.
- E. Wigglesworth
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
- W. H. Auden
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
- James M. Barrie
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
- A. C. Benson
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

- Charlton Ogburn
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then, To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
- Don Marquis
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
- George Santayana
Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

- Euripides
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

- Albert Camus
. . . the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
- Bible
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
- Emily Dickinson
At rare moments in history, by a series of accidents never to be repeated, arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount, hedonistic, mindless, intent upon the glorious physical instant.
- Colm Maclnnes
Man is that he might have joy.

- Joseph Smith
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
- A. Edward Newton
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
- Chinese proverb
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

- Roy M. Goodman
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

- Immanuel Hermann von Fichte
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
- Cicero
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
- William H. Sheldon
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

- Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- George Santayana
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

- Robert Frost
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
- William Cowper
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
- Russell Baker
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

- Bertrand Russell
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

- Joseph Wood Krutch
I am happy and content because I think I am.

- Alain-Rene Lesage
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- Joseph Roux
Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
- Norman Bradburn
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Anonymous
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

- Baltasar Gracian
If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
- William Penn
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

- Horace
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
- Ken Keyes
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- Sophocles
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
- Barbara Bush
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
- May Sarton
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
- Aristotle
Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- George Santayana
The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
- Robert Henri
Make us happy and you make us good.

- Robert Browning
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

- Barbara Walters
The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

- Bible
I love myself when I am laughing.

- Zora Neale Hurston
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

- Blaise Pascal
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
- Anais Nin
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
- Amanda Bradley
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.
- Phyllis Battelle
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
- Brenda Ueland
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
- Jeanne Moreau
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman
Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
- Anton Chekhov
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

- Emily Dickinson
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
- Socrates
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
- Pierre de Beaumarchais
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever.
- B. M. Bower
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
- Llewelyn Powers
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

- Henrik Ibsen
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

- Bob Newhart
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

- Agnes Repplier
Happiness hates the timid!

- Eugene O'Neill
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
- Heinrich Heine
Man is that he might have joy.

- Joseph Smith
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
- Don Marquis
If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die.
- Celio Calcagnini
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again-this is the brave and happy life.
- J. E. Buckrose
The true object of all human life is play.

- G. K. Chesterton
The right to happiness is fundamental.

- Anna Pavlova
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
- Margaret Atwood
Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
- Myrtle Auvil
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
- Julia Child
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
- Anna Jameson
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first or late, A work too great for fame.
- Mary Clemmer
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
- Jodie Foster
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
- Freya Stark
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

- Judith Viorst
Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
- Hannah Arendt
I love, and the world is mine!

- Florence Earle Coates
When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
- Fanny Brice
A caress is better than a career.

- Elizabeth Marbury
I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
- Ouida
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
- Marge Piercy
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

- Agnes Repplier
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

- George Sand
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

- Willa Cather
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
- Lydia M. Child
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible-it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
- Barbara De Angelis
Love is the only effective counter to death.

- Maureen Duffy
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
- Olive Schreiner
There is nothing ridiculous in love.

- Olive Schreiner
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.
- Ntozake Shange
From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.
- Patty Duke
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.
- Judith Viorst
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
- Louise Erdrich
'Tis what I love determines how I love.

- George Eliot
Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
- John Sutherland Bonnell
There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
- Voltaire
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
- Aristotle
What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

- Bertolt Brecht
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
- Jane Rule
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
- Johann von Goethe
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

- Amy Lowell
No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
- Franz Kafka
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
- Holbrook Jackson
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
- Blaise Pascal
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

- Lady Marguerite Blessington
Love is a great beautifier.

- Louisa May Alcott
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

- Rosalind Russell
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
- Jane Seymour
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
- Charles de Montesquieu
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
- Josh Billings
Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

- William Blake
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

- Alexander Pope
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
- Russell Baker
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
- Alexander Pope
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
- John Ruskin
Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.
- George Sand
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

- Merle Haggard
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
- Garuda Purana
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
- Joseph Conrad
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.
- Andre Maurois
To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

- Andre Gide
Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Some pursue happiness, others create it.

- Anonymous
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
- Plato
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Happy is he that chastens himself.

- Anonymous
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

- Publilius Syrus
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
- Lorraine Hansbury
Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

- Dr. Boris Sokoloff
Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.
- Harrison Ford
Learn how to feel joy.

- Seneca
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann von Goethe
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
- Abraham Lincoln
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
- George Matthew Allen
Build a little fence of trust Around today; Fill the space with loving work, And therein stay.
- Mary Frances Butts
This is wisdom: to love wine, beauty, and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.
- Theodore De Banville
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
- R. H. Tawney
The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
- Cyril Connolly
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.
- Horace Walpole
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.
- George Sand
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
- Andre Gide
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
- Sophie Tucker
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
- Frederick E. Crane
For me, happiness came from prayer to a kindly God, faith in a kindly God, love for my fellow man, and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there, either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.
- Edward Young
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley
Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
- Theodor Reik
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
- Marcus Aurelius
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.
- J. Kenfield Morley
If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.
- Josephine Rathbone
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison
May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
- Eskimo proverb
What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
- Adam Smith
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
- T. S. Eliot
Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing.
- Jerome K. Jerome
To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
- Henry Van Dyke
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
- Saint Augustine
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
- Richard Halloway
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
- William Ellery Channing
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.
- Emily Post
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

- Lao-Tzu
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.
- Swedish proverb
Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
- Smiley Blanton
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.
- Anonymous
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same."
- Joan Mcintosh
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
- Confucius
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Dr. Melba Colgrove
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
- Evelyn Underhill
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

- Marcus Aurelius
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

We can build upon foundations anywhere, if they are well and truly laid.
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.
- Eliza Cook
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
- Rosalia Castro
When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
- Elizabeth Dole
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
- Audrey Hepburn
What you become is what counts.

- Liz Smith
If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent, and so would always be able to have water in abundance, how fortunate he would consider himself; so too, when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
- Seren Kierkegaard
Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
- John B. Sheerin
Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within.

- Mary Lou Cook
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
- W. L. Shirer
It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
- William Ralph Inge
I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
- Julia Child
I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death.
- Isak Dinesen
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
- Clare Boothe Luce
You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.
- Peace Pilgrim
I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.
- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long.
- Lady R. Russell
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.
- Pearl Bailey
We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.
- Amelia Barr
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
- Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
- Rose Wilder Lane
To seek after beauty as an end, is a wild goose chase, a will-o'-the-wisp, because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty, which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.
- Ada Bethune
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

- Chuang-tzu
This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.
- Joanna Baillie
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
- Lauren Bacall
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- Samuel Johnson
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
- Bette Davis
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
- Holbrook Jackson
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

- Lisa Alther
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

- Samuel Johnson
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

- Palmer Sondreal
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
- Hugh Black
If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

- C. P. Snow
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

- William Feather
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

- Lao-Tzu
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men.
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

- Elton Trueblood
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
- Bertolt Brecht
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
- James Freeman Clarke
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
- Robert J. McCracken
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

- Paul Goodman
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
- John Burroughs
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
- John Barrymore
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
- William Bennett
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
- Edith Wharton
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

- Viktor Frankl
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.
- Josh Billings
Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

- Dr. Benjamin Spock
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
- Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

- Chinese proverb
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

- Florence Ellinwood Allen
Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
- Margaret Collier Graham
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
- Lillian Hellman
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
- Harry Harrison
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
- Barbara De Angelis
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A good message will always find a messenger.

- Amelia Barr
It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

- Catherine Cookson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Freya Stark
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
- Jodie Foster
Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
- Ovid
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

- Thomas Paine
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- Ayn Rand
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
- Erasmus
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.
- Matthew Arnold
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
- Kay Boyle
The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.

- Ruth Wolff
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
- Samuel Johnson
Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

- Marcelene Cox
Happiness is action.
- David Thomas
I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.
- Willa Cather
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- William James
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

- Anonymous
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

- Grandma Moses
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.
- Charlotte P. Gilman
To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
- W. Beran Wolfe
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

- August Strindberg
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

- Aristotle
We must be doing something to be happy.

- William Hazlitt
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

- Cyril Connolly
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

- Paul Claudel
Happiness walks on busy feet.

- Kitte Turmell
Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

- Philip Skelton
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

- A. Edward Newton
The busiest man is the happiest man.

- Sir Theodore Martin
To be busy is man's only happiness.

- Mark Twain
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
- William Feather
In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable.
- Margaret Sherwood
Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

- Denis De Rougemont
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- George Santayana
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

- Hugh Walpole
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

- J. C. F. von Schiller
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
- Sir James M. Barrie
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
- David Hume
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
- Ken Keyes
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
- Lin Yutang
Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.
- Jennie Jerome Churchill
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
- Juvenal
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Will Durant
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

- George Washington
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
- Tyron Edwards
True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- William Cowper
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

- Phillips Brooks
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
- Ruth Benedict
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out, you must stay out. And to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand.
- Henry James
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
- Luigi Pirandello
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.

- Marcus Aurelius
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
- Horace Mann
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
- Henry Ford
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
- William J. Locke
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
- R. Briffault
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
- William H. Sheldon
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

- L. Ron Hubbard
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Having a goal is a state of happiness.

- E. J. Bartek
Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Without duty, life is soft and bone less.

- Joseph Joubert
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

- Amelia Barr
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
- Leo Tolstoy
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

- Charles Baudelaire
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
- Fernandez de Andrada
A happy life is made up of little things ... a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.
- Carol Holmes
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran
First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.
- Catherine the Great
I know well that happiness is in little things.

- John Ruskin
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
- Susan B. Anthony
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

- Jane Austen
I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
- Julia Child
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
- Sarah Bernhardt
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- Samuel Johnson
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
- Hugh Walpole
The little things are infinitely the most important.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
- Ivy Baker Priest
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
- Elsa Schiapirelli
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
- Benjamin Franklin
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- Ernest Dimnet
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
- Anonymous
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

- Cher
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.
- Julia Child
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.
- Susan Kaufman
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
- Mary Ann Kelty

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Beauty Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life Quotations #10

Inspiring Quotes #10

Laws die, Books never.

A book is the only immortality.

Beware of the man of one book.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for.

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

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People in the West are always getting ready to live.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

If you're on the merry-go-round, you have to go round.

Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.

One man in his time plays many parts.

One returns to the place one came from.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

We're all in this together - by ourselves.

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Where there is love there is life.

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

I love humanity but I hate people.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?