
Letter of advice to British diplomat Tom Fletcher's son. https://twitter.com/TFletcher/status/1033597850729570304
2000s, 2008
Source: Out of the East, Books and Habits, p. 70.
Letter of advice to British diplomat Tom Fletcher's son. https://twitter.com/TFletcher/status/1033597850729570304
2000s, 2008
“What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?”
Source: American Wife
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Source: The Powerbook
“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
Source: Life of Pi
Girls & Boys
Song lyrics, Parade Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
Quoted from: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Lake Louise, Canada (1968) - MaharishiUniversity http://www.bienfaits-meditation.com/en/maharishi/videos/mechanics-of-the-technique
“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”
Source: The Letter
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Canto V, lines 121–123 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)