Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
“When one loves, one does not calculate.”
St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.”
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime
“We may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose.”
G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles
“The way in which people miss their opportunities is melancholy.”
Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer
“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy and Politics
“I shall never have the garden I have in my mind, but that for me is the joy of it; certain things can never be realized and so all the more reason to attempt them.”
Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book)
“A library is a medicine cabinet. What can heal one person may not work at all for somebody else.”
Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
“Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
“The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, or Meditation on Transcendent Gastronomy