We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde
What If We Had Had One More Hero
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness v. Contentment
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
-D. Jerrard
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Happiness is contentment; most are not content to learn this.
-K. Michael Prewitt
Idle Minds
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
-George Bernard Shaw
Speculating on the Future
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate – when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
-Mark Twain
Present & Content in This Moment
I still lived in the future – a habit which is the death of happiness.
-Quentin Crisp
Not to be Overwhelmed
The best thing about the future is that is comes one day at a time.
-Dean Acheson
The Distance Between Us
Go often to the house of a friend for weeds choke the unused path.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three Old Friends
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-Benjamin Franklin
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