Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our
grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Related:
- Sit In:
When you sit down to stand up for your rights..... - Bart: Hymns, here! I got hymns, here. Get 'em while they're holy.
Fresh from God's brain to your mouth. Heh heh heh... - The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may
going to prove one's self a fool.
Nathaniel... - If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your councels... - Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Nathaniel... - Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Nathaniel... - Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can
lie down,
never stay awake when you can sleep... - Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down
without one.
William... - We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions.
However far our gaze has penetrated, there are always...
