While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. less than 1 minute read
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. less than 1 minute read
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. less than 1 minute read
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. less than 1 minute read
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. less than 1 minute read
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. less than 1 minute read
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. less than 1 minute read
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. less than 1 minute read
