Quotes

210

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

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Thomas Paine

211

Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.

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Hermann Hesse

212

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

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Nikos Kazantzakis

213

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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Aldous Huxley

214

Sometimes we are required to do what others will shirk from, the action is what separates the hero from the coward.

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Sgt. Jamie Shrope

215

The only boundaries to our imaginations are the ones we imagine ourselves.

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Jan Kaim

216

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

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Henry David Thoreau

217

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.

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The Bible, John 14.27

218

If a man sings of God and hears of Him,| And lets love of God sprout within him,| All his sorrows shall vanish,| And in his mind, God will bestow abiding peace.

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Adi Granth, Japuji 5, M.1, p. 2

219

Men do not mirror themselves in running water, they mirror themselves in still water. only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

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Chuang Tzu 5

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