"How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more."

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Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903). “New Letters and Memorials”

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#Ideas Quotes #Longing Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.”
“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.”
“Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.”
“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.”
“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message”
“When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.”
“I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.”

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