"Happiness is a direction, not a place."

--

Sydney J. Harris

#Happiness Quotes #Happy Quotes

“It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America.”
“A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.”

Source : Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”
“Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”
“When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. â€œDoes your sister read our books?â€ Anna wanted to know. â€œNo. She reads literature.”
“In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.”

Source : Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.116, Macmillan
“I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.”
“For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.
“I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.”

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