Six Quotes About Happiness by Owen ..... Quotes, Aphorisms and Proverbs
Date: 7/9/2004 7:53:29 AM ( 20 y ago)
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"It is madness to envy another man's
happiness; we wouldn't know what to
do with it. Happiness doesn't come
ready-made; it has to be made to
measure."
-- Andre Gide/ JOURNAL --
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part
of happiness."
-- Bertrand Russell/ THE CONQUEST OF
HAPPINESS --
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"The gentle, buoying feeling that people call happiness is most often
to be felt when we are developing
and educating our own faculties."
-- Gilbert Highet --
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"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 --
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"It took me a lifetime to learn that
happiness is in quiet things, not the peaks of ecstasy."
-- Anais Nin/ THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN
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"We rise by waves which grow again
Their own melodious height
Into the rainbow's shy embrace;
We shiver uncomplainingly
And taste upon our lips this minute
The emerald kiss
And breath on breath of indigo."
-- Dylan Thomas --
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