“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“There is thus an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“A philosopher is recognised by the fact that he shuns three brilliant and noisy things— fame, princes, and women: which is not to say that they do not come to him.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“But there’s none so blind . . . as those who will not listen.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I thank my Maker, that, in the midst of judgment, he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto!”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts”

― Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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