
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
- Topic: Happiness, Life
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
› Aristotle
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
› Plato
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
› Dalai Lama
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
› Benedict Spinoza
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
› Marilyn Monroe
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
› Robert Louis Stevenson
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.
› Vincent van Gogh
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
› Henry Ward Beecher
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
› Mohandas Gandhi
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
› Aldous Huxley
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
› Maya Angelou
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
› Marcus Aurelius
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
› Mark Twain
In all Chaos there is a Cosmos, In all Disorder a secret Order.
› Carl Jung
