Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Joseph Butler

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Joseph Butler

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinger

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo Rosten

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Martin Seligman

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Neil Simon

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Pierre Corneille

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Buchi Emecheta

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Charles Babbage

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Richard Dawkins

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Timothy Leary

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

Daniel Boulud

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Thomas Kuhn

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

Craig Thompson