![]() ― Leo Tolstoy “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ― Franz Kafka “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” ― Jack Kerouac “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky “Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.” ― Socrates “Man only likes to count his troubles he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” ― Lao Tzu “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” Quotes About Happiness “What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.”Ĭarl Jung “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” Marinate, contemplate, salivate, and above all, savor these, as if they were intimate notes left to you by some of the greatest minds in history.īecause in fact, that’s precisely what they are. ![]() So, as a gift to you, awesome Internet-person, I assembled this list of 150 jewels of thought, on everything from love and suffering, to mystery and happiness, to death and morality. No way.īut methinks they can nonetheless deliver potent, pithy shots of insight, clarity, and/or invigoration. Quotes are not a replacement for reading entire books, elaborate novels, and longform essays. ![]() Because if you really scour the caverns of the Internet, you find a nearly infinite wellspring of mind-liberating, soul-vitalizing gems of language.ĭon’t get me wrong. Quotes often catch a bad rep on the Internet, due to the tendency of certain popular quotes to be shared ad infinitum.īut this is a shame. ![]() Proverbs, quips, riddles, excerpts, aphorisms, koans, snippets, lyrics, and limericks - I don’t discriminate. ![]()
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