“I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.” MadeHomeSchoolFeltMiserableGradesInner LifeTurmoilChoresHome LifeGood Grades Author:Sonja Sohn
“The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.” WarHomeMiserableScotlandNot HappyScotsBeing Irish Author:George Orwell
“Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.” MenHeartMayCountryHomeEasyDifficultImaginationBlindCuriosityPhilosopherEsteemMiserableImpulseGood ManDespiseSublimeIndulgeTravellerAstronomersVagabonds Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world
“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.” IfsHomePastPayObjectsStonesHatredFortuneDearMiserableComplimentAncestorGood FortuneWhat You LovePeninsulasCompliments You Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti