“The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.” MenMindSoulLightHappinessJoyTurnsPayTroubleDemandEach DayTollsHappy Man Author:Edgar Guest
“The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.” IfsTryingNumbersTroubleDemandRidiculousThese DaysMy Time Author:Neil Gaiman
“In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.” HumansCultureInterestHuman BeingsTroubleProductsIndustryDemandHarmonyCollectivesRepresentativesBenevolentIllusory Author:Theodor Adorno
“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsTwoAbilityTroubleSafeDemandLaborTragedyLuckBrilliantAbsenceGutsPessimismSmarterRecognizingLive WellHappy People Book:Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
“The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.” HappensTroubleDisciplineDemandAnnoyingRestrictionSneer Author:Dorothy L. Sayers