More sad quotes, depression quotesThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor HugoThe happiest people have endured the most pain. UnknownBeing happy for someone else’s success makes you happier. Russ DiemonA happy person doesn’t have to convince other people they are happy. Either you are or you’re not. And if you are, you’re not taking selfies to show people. Shane ParrishYou are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself. RumiDon’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. Winnie The PoohThe desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. Mark MansonLaughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor HugoReally high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s. Bertrand RussellTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand RussellHow lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Winnie The PoohNo one can be sad when they have a balloon. Winnie The Pooh Click to tweetIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar WildeYou will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert CamusWhat can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam SmithHappiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre DumasI am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. Alexandre DumasMaybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom. Gustave FlaubertAll the mistakes I ever made in my life were when I wanted to say No, and said Yes. Moss HartMany of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it. Soren KierkegaardHappiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. Soren KierkegaardWhen you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao TzuEvery moment of happiness requires a great amount of ignorance. Honoré de BalzacI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. Gustave FlaubertPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. Gustave FlaubertThe soul lives there in the silent breath. RumiTo die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. Victor HugoTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary OliverIf you haven’t found something strange during the day it hasn’t been much of a day. John WheelerWhat do you despise? By this are you truly known. Frank HerbertModern people sit comfortably in air conditioned rooms and derange themselves with misinformation and hyperbole. “The world is going insane!” they shout at an unhearing screen. The world? Or you? The Stoic EmperorThat little spark you feel as you heal. That’s what life’s about. UnknownStay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. UnknownLife is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others. Not realizing that everyone has a different question paper. UnknownAnd you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? RumiThe individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Nikola TeslaFashions have done more harm than revolutions. Victor HugoThe paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor. Victor HugoI belong to the opposition party, which is called life. Honoré de BalzacI prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. Jean-Jacques RousseauUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest. William FaulknerIt’s not when you realise that nothing can help you – religion, pride, anything – it’s when you realise that you don’t need any aid. William FaulknerTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar WildeThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell Click to tweetIt is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar WildeMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar WildeOne can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. Gustave FlaubertWe must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity… I think that’s what being really human means. Gustave FlaubertFace the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Soren KierkegaardNowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar WildeWe live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Oscar WildeBut how could you live and have no story to tell? Fyodor DostoyevskyThe task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. Erwin SchrödingerBlessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. Albert CamusLet there be spaces in your togetherness. Kahlil GibranBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SenecaIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. SenecaEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do. VoltaireHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich NietzscheYou don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Oscar WildeThe very essence of romance is uncertainty. Oscar WildeWhen you’re in love, truly in love, you never have to question it. Michael FaudetWhen love itself comes to kiss you, don’t hold back. RumiLove doesn’t die; the men and women do. William FaulknerThe more one judges, the less one loves. Honoré de BalzacYears of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. Edgar Allan PoeThe sun loved the moon so much, he died every night just to let her breath. UnknownThat’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. Jim MorrisonLove is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. Victor HugoThe smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. Kahlil GibranWhen one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. Ethiopian proverbIf love is a sickness, patience is the remedy. Cameroon proverbLove is the poetry of the senses. Honoré de Balzac Click to tweetLet your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river. Liberian proverbIf the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars? Tunisian proverbYou know who you love but you can’t know who loves you. Nigerian proverbWhere there is love, there is no darkness. Burundi proverbIf you marry a monkey for its wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains. Egyptian proverbDon’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. Madagascar proverbHe who loves, love you with your dirt. Ugandan proverbA letter from the heart can be read on the face. Kenyan proverbEven as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands. Nigerian proverbLove, like rain, does not choose the grass on which it falls. South African proverbOne who loves the vase, loves also what is inside. Kenyan proverbThere can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Martin Luther King JrHate is easy. Love takes courage. UnknownIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. Bertrand RussellI love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. William ShakespeareHow do you spell ‘love’? You don’t spell it, you feel it. Winnie The PoohWhen love prevails, fear departs. RumiBetter a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey Click to tweetCommon sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. Victor HugoEvery strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well. Neil StraussIt’s not how well you play the game, it’s deciding what game you want to play. Kwame AppiahWhere there is no sense of ownership, there is respect. Where there is no hope, there is Truth. Where there is no attachment, there is love. Kapil GuptaBelieve in the you who believes in yourself. UnknownYou don’t deserve what you don’t respect. UnknownYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. Robert A. HeinleinIgnoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood