“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore
119 quotes on happiness and hope — from the classics to the everyday.
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Victor Hugo · Les Miserables, 1862
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
J.M. Barrie · Peter Pan
“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
Fanny Fern
“A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.”
Unknown
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
Epicurus
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”
Epicurus · Principal Doctrines
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
Epicurus
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”
Epicurus · Vatican Sayings
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus
“Knowledge is growing exponentially; knowledge needed to fend off our problems is growing faster than the problems.”
Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
Socrates · attributed
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
Socrates · attributed