"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."

-- William Cobbett

#Happiness Quotes #Mind Quotes #Misery Quotes

“Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.”

Source : Theocritus (1767). “The Idylliums of Theocritus”, p.61
“Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.”
“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell”
“With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.”
“Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.”
“I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.”
“People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.”
“We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013

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