Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Happiness
-
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
→ -
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
→ -
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
→ -
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
→ -
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
→ -
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
→ -
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.
→ -
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
→