Quotes: Pearl S. Buck

"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness." 

–– Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer 

Source: Daily Philosopher Instagram, September 2, 2024. 

via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, p. 27.

Quotes: Tom Bodett

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." 

–– Tom Bodett, (b. 1955), American author, voice actor, radio host, woodworker, and columnist 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.

Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman 

via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022, p. 12. 

Quotes: Tom Waits

"We are buried underneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness." 

–– Tom Waits (b. 1949), American musician, composer, singer-songwriter, actor 

Source: Tom Waits. True Confessions. 2008.

Quotes: José N. Harris

"There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living." 

–– José N. Harris (b. 1963), American writer and psychologist

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 21. 

Quotes: Irv Kochman's mother

"Happiness is like a string of pearls. Each pearl represents a moment or time that I was happy. But each pearl is separated by a knot. Separately they are happy moments, but all together they are my happiness." 

–– Irv Kochman's mother, Holocaust survivor (c. 1922-2022) Source: The Globe and Mail, Saturday January 14, 2023, p. 010. 

via: Toned Sketchbook 1, 2023, p. 2.

Quotes: Anni Albers

"Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness." 

–– Anni Albers (1899-1994), German-born American textile artist and printmaker 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 124.

Quotes: G. K. Chesterton

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

–– G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer 

Source: Austin Kleon, November 18, 2022. 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 111.

Quotes: Virginia Woolf

"Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck in between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent." 

–– Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English writer, critic, & publisher 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 62.

Quotes: Samuel Johnson

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." 

–– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author 

via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 121

Quotes: Charles Kingsley

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." 

–– Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), British clergyman, historian, and writer

via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 89 

Quotes: Seneca

"Where the fear is, happiness is not." 

–– Seneca (4 BC - AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman 

via Sketchbook 17, 2011, p. 71

Quotes: Alex Bogusky

"Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness." 

–– Alex Bogusky (b. 1963), American designer, advertising executive, and writer. 

via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 92.

Quotes 309: Charles Pierre Baudelaire

"A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness." 

–– Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, essayist, art critic, and philosopher 

via Sketchbook 7, 2009, p. 68.