"If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy."

-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.”
“The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
“You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.”
“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
“Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.”
“Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.”
“If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children â€” oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
“I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.229, Da Capo Press

You may also like: