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I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell1904–1987The Power of Myth (book), p. 120
- Motivation & Goals
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
Albert Camus1913–1960“Intuitions” (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus
- Motivation & Goals
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus
Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. II, ch. 9
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Jabberwocky (1871)In context
- Comedy
A warrior knows that he is waiting and knows also what he is waiting for, and while he waits he feasts his eyes on the world. The ultimate accomplishment of a warrior is joy.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Eagle’s Gift, (1981)
I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.
Willa Cather1873–1947My Ántonia (1918), My Antonia (1918), Book I, Ch. 2In context
- Life & Death
There is happiness, there it comes; it comes nearer and nearer; I hear its steps already. And if we do not see it we shall not know it, but what does that matter? Others will see it!
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by TrofimovIn context
- Hope
Oh, my childhood, days of my innocence! In this nursery I used to sleep; I used to look out from here into the orchard. Happiness used to wake with me every morning, and then it was just as it is now; nothing has changed.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act One, spoken by LubovIn context
- Youth
My dear, my gentle, beautiful orchard! My life, my youth, my happiness, good-bye! Good-bye!
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Four, spoken by LubovIn context
- Youth
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936A Short History of England (1917), p. 59
- Thanksgiving