“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss · I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, 1978
59 quotes on happiness and hope — from the classics to the everyday.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss · I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, 1978
“I want people to feel like they're not alone in being a mess.”
Oliver Tree
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo · Les Misérables, 1862
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'”
Audrey Hepburn
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
Elon Musk · SXSW, 2013
“I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
Elon Musk · Rolling Stone interview, 2017
“I don't think it's that easy, honestly. I think if somebody doesn't have a compelling problem to work on, they're probably not going to be very happy.”
Elon Musk · Interview, TED Talk, 2022
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost · Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length, 1942
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens · Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
“You know how paradise is supposed to be a place on Earth in the summer time.”
Diane Arbus · Photographic essay and interviews
“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.”
Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
“The summer I was fifteen I felt alive all the way down to my toenails.”
Joyce Carol Oates · Bellefleur
“The days are longer and the responsibilities are fewer, and you feel yourself expand and stretch and come alive again.”
Vivian Gornick · Unfinished Woman
“This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.”
Maya Angelou
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”
Monica Baldwin · "I Leap Over the Wall", 1949