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“The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.”

Looks Earth Happiness Vision Air Sky Spring Blue Wings Poetry Is Butterfly April Springtime Frail Like A Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Book:Joyce Kilmer

Source: Joyce Kilmer

“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”

Happiness Trouble Duty Anxiety Spring Performances Midst Unhappiness Anxious Strict

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.”

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

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Book:Locked rooms and open doors

Source: Locked rooms and open doors

“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”

Happiness Success Hope Goal Successful Inspirational Life Failure Becoming Spring Obstacles Executives Cheer Cartoonist

Author:Scott Adams

“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”

Should Firsts Persons Together Happiness Spring Happy Inner Peace First Love Great Happiness Looking For Happiness He Makes Me Happy

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.”

Care Action Happiness Principles Taken Too Much Spring Misery Our Actions Taking Things For Granted

Author:Red Skelton

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”

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Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays