"Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity."

-- Josef Pieper

#Felicity Quotes

“When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.”
“Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!”
“There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2013). “No Man's Land”, p.60, Faber & Faber
“America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.”
“It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.”
“Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?”
“Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.”

Source : 1986 Of Christopher Isherwood. In the New Republic, 4 Nov.

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