The Happiness Project Quotes
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.”
- Anatole France
“If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you’ll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.”
-Flannery O’Connor
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
-Disraeli
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.”
-C.S. Lewis
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
-Ayn Rand
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
-George Eliot
"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”
-W.H. Sheldon
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.”
-Oscar Wilde